941 private quotes tagged marriage

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

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“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.” — Rowan D. Williams

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“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.” — Mike Myers

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“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?” — Brigitte Bardot

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“But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.” — Tony Campolo

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“If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?” — Tony Campolo

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“President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?” — Tony Campolo

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“My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.” — Kenneth G. Wilson

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“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner

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“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.” — Mae West

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“I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“Marriage is a great institution.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” — Jane Austen

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“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.” — Nick Cave

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“The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.” — Billy Graham

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“Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.” — John Leguizamo

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“I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.” — Joel Osteen

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“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.” — Anthony Storr

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“I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.” — Mary McCormack

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“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.” — Cyril Connolly

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“The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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