In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
— Jane Smiley
I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.
— Jane Kaczmarek
The truth was, there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, motor neurone disease, and physics. If you took out motor neurone disease, you are still left with physics.
— Jane Hawking
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
— Jane Austen
Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.
— Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
— Jamie Foxx
It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.
— James Packer
I've never thought about marriage or children.
— James May
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
— James Hillman
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
— James E. Faust
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
— James Dobson
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
— James Carville
If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.
— Jaggi Vasudev
I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.
— Jacqueline Woodson
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
— Jackie Kennedy
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
— Jack Nicholson
I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.
— Jane Seymour
My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.
Even when I was a kid, I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.
— Jane Fallon
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'
— Jane Asher
My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.
— James William Middleton
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
— James McGreevey
Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.
— James Lankford
I have a very intense marriage.
— James Ellroy
Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
— James Brolin
I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
Marriage has just never interested me.
— Jacqueline Bisset
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
— Jack Kingston
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
— Jane Ridley
In the early days of our marriage, Stephen could walk around Cambridge on my arm - a stick on one hand, leaning on me with the other. I carried a baby on one arm and Stephen on the other.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
The first year of marriage, you definitely get to throw the wife card out whenever you're mad.
— Jamie Lynn Spears
I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.
— Jamie Johnson
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
— James Taylor
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.
— James Lafferty
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
— James Denton
Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring - representative, accountable governance.
— Jamal Khashoggi
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
— Jacques Pepin
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
— Jacob Rees-Mogg
I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.
— Jack Thorne
