I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
— Helen Reddy
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
— Helen Gahagan
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
— Hedy Lamarr
Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of destructive cultural change.
— Heather Mac Donald
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.
— Harvey Fierstein
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
— Harold Nicolson
I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
— Harold Ford, Jr.
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
— Halle Berry
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
— H. L. Mencken
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
— Gus Van Sant
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
— Groucho Marx
You can't know about marriage until you try it.
— Greg Evigan
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.
— Goldie Hawn
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
— Helen Fisher
Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.
— Heather Dubrow
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
I'm in an interracial marriage.
I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.
— Gwen Stefani
My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.
— Grover Norquist
I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.
— Greta Scacchi
Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'
— Greg Boyle
Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
I'm now in my late 30s, and I've been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I've decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.
— Gong Yoo
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
— Helen Mirren
In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.
Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline and work that make them attractive mates.
When I was little, I watched a lot of Disney movies - so I always imagined a big fairytale wedding as a kid. But when marriage became real, I felt an intimate wedding with close family and friends would be better.
— Hazel Keech
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
— Harriet Martineau
I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
— Hanna Rosin
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
— H. G. Bissinger
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
— Guy de Maupassant
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment.
— Greg Wise
What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
— Grant Heslov
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.
