Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
— Jennifer Dunn
The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.
— Jenna Morasca
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
— Jenna Fischer
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
— Jeffrey Kluger
I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.
— Jeff Sessions
Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.
— Jeff Nichols
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
— Jeff Miller
In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
— Jeff Bridges
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.
— Jeanne Tripplehorn
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
— Jean Rostand
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.
— Jean Chatzky
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
— Jason Sudeikis
A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.
— Jason Flemyng
Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.
— Jared Polis
Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%.
— Janet Yellen
Marriage is wonderful.
— Jennifer Aniston
The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.
— Jenna McCarthy
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
— Jemima Khan
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?
— Jeff Greenfield
I love marriage.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
— Jeanette Winterson
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
— Jean Giraudoux
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
— Jean Cocteau
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
— Jayne Meadows
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
— Jason Mraz
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
— Jasmine Guy
My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
— Jared Harris
I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.
— Jeffrey C. Mateer
We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.
I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.
Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
— Jeb Bush
My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
— Jean Seberg
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
— Jasper Carrott
In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.
— Jason Katims
The so-called Defense of Marriage Act is a valueless tradition that, like laws against interracial marriage that were finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, undermines the spirit of love and commitment that couples share and sends the wrong message to society.
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.
— Jardine Libaire
