941 private quotes tagged marriage

“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.” — Colin Powell

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“We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.” — Jerry Falwell

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“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.” — Gerald Brenan

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“Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.” — Lewis Grizzard

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“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.” — Prince Philip

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“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret

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“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.” — Ellen Key

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“Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.” — Patsy Kensit

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“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.” — Al Goldstein

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“Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.” — Jason Sudeikis

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“It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.” — Kendrick Meek

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“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.” — Eminem

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“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck

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“Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.” — Kendrick Meek

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“There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.” — Alexander Theroux

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“I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.” — Penelope Cruz

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“Marriage is an exercise in torture.” — Frances Conroy

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“We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.” — Prince William

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“I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.” — Pope John Paul II

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“I have a lot of respect for marriage.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.” — Kyle Chandler

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“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.” — John Gay

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“If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.” — Michael Enzi

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“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.” — John le Carre

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