941 private quotes tagged marriage

“The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.” — Jim Bunning

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“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.” — Kyle Chandler

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“Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.” — Hesiod

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“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.” — Hesiod

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“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.” — Kyle Chandler

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“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.” — Judy Biggert

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“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

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“I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.” — Bede Griffiths

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

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“I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.” — Jenna Elfman

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“Marriage has just never interested me.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.” — Doug Larson

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“Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!” — Patrice Leconte

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“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.” — A. P. Herbert

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“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” — Marilyn Monroe

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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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“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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“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” — Barbra Streisand

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“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.” — Peter De Vries

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“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” — Henny Youngman

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“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.” — William O. Douglas

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“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.” — Boris Pasternak

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“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.” — E. W. Howe

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“My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.” — Jamie Lee Curtis

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