You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.
— Josh Mandel
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
— Joseph Joubert
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
— Joseph Barbera
I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.
— Jonathan Silverman
My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.
— Jonathan Evison
I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.
— Jon Hamm
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.
— Johnny Vegas
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
— John Wooden
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
— John Updike
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
— John Thune
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
— John Steinbeck
There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.
— John Sentamu
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
— John Selden
Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.
— John Ridley
Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.
— John Rampton
On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.
— John McCain
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
— Josh Billings
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
— Joseph Campbell
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
— Jordan Peterson
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
— Jonathan Haidt
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
— Jon Meacham
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
— Jojo Moyes
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
— Johnny Carson
Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.
— John Waters
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.
— John Tesh
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
— John Sandford
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
— John Piper
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
— John Mahoney
As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.
— Joseph P. Bradley
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.
It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
— Johnny Weissmuller
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
— John Travolta
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
— John Sununu
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
— John Naisbitt
