941 private quotes tagged marriage

“I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.” — Maria Callas

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“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.” — Harold Nicolson

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“What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.” — Alain de Botton

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“Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.” — Phyllis McGinley

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“I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.” — Debra Messing

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“The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.” — Gerrit Smith

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“I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.” — Nancy Grace

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“Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.” — Les Dawson

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“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'” — Archie Panjabi

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“I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.” — Norman Lear

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“I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.” — Anne Heche

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“American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.” — Florence King

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“Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.” — Jack Kingston

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“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.” — Thomas Love Peacock

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“But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.” — Jack Kingston

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“Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.” — Jack Kingston

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“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

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“When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'” — Mark Udall

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“My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.” — Jhumpa Lahiri

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“In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.” — David Boreanaz

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“I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.” — Sade Adu

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“I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.” — Anthony Weiner

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“I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.” — Ashley Judd

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“Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.” — Nick Lachey

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