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True love isn't a destination painted in sunsets but a language spoken amid changing seasons.
Author:
Isla Fontaine
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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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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.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
Author:
Rick Wright
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
Author:
Connie Willis
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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.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
Author:
Esther Williams
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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.
Author:
Prince William
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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
Author:
Kim Wilde
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Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Author:
Patrick White
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Author:
Mae West
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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.
Author:
Jerry Weller
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We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Author:
Raquel Welch
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No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
Author:
Johnny Weissmuller
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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.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
Author:
Dionne Warwick
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Author:
Earl Warren
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Author:
Mary Ward
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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Author:
Mary Ward
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The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Author:
Peter Vries
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Author:
Voltaire
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Author:
Voltaire
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Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
Author:
David Vitter
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
Author:
Kathy Valentine
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Author:
John Updike
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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Author:
John Updike
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
Author:
John Updike
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It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
Author:
Aisha Tyler
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I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
Author:
Shania Twain
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Author:
Mark Twain
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
Author:
Pat Travers
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Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Author:
Alexander Theroux
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Author:
Tertullian
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
Author:
Randall Terry
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Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
Author:
William Taylor
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
Author:
James Taylor
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Marriage is a great institution.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
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The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
Author:
James Talent
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I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
Author:
James Talent
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Author:
Algernon Swinburne
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I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Author:
Jimmy Swaggart
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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
Author:
John Sununu
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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
Author:
Howard Stringer
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
Author:
Ringo Starr
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Author:
Socrates
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It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
Author:
Dick Smothers
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
Author:
Liz Smith
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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.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.
Author:
Dodie Smith
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My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.
Author:
Sinbad
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Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Author:
Neil Simon
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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.
Author:
Simone Signoret
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Author:
George Shaw
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Author:
George Shaw
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Author:
George Shaw
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Author:
George Shaw
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
Author:
Jeff Sessions
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I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
Author:
Connie Sellecca
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After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
Author:
Leah Sears
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There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
Author:
Richard Scott
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I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Author:
Max Schmeling
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Author:
Milton Sapirstein
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Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
Author:
Rick Santorum
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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Author:
Herbert Samuel
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Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Author:
Juan Samaranch
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Author:
Katey Sagal
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It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
Author:
Meg Ryan
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Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Author:
Dora Russell
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
Author:
Darrell Royal
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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Author:
Mike Rounds
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I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
Author:
Portia Rossi
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I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Author:
Mickey Rooney
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I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
Author:
Dennis Rodman
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Author:
Keith Richards
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Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
Author:
Denise Richards
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Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
Author:
Burt Reynolds
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
Author:
Sumner Redstone
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I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
Author:
Lynn Redgrave
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There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
Author:
Lynn Redgrave
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Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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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.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
Author:
J. Priestley
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I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
Author:
Kelly Preston
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I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Author:
Marge Piercy
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God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Author:
Francis Picabia
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
Author:
Bernadette Peters
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Author:
William Penn
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Author:
Sean Penn
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Author:
Thomas Peacock
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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.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
Author:
Rod Parsley
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Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Author:
Joel Osteen
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
Author:
Yoko Ono
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Author:
Ted Olson
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
Author:
Ted Olson
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Author:
Ted Olson
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During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Author:
Barack Obama
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
Author:
Eleanor Norton
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
Author:
Brigitte Nielsen
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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.
Author:
Harold Nicolson
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Author:
Beverley Nichols
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I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
Author:
Bob Newhart
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Author:
Randy Neugebauer
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
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Randy Neugebauer
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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
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Randy Neugebauer
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Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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Ben Nelson
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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
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Cynthia Nelms
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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Ogden Nash
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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Ogden Nash
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
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Joe Murray
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Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
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Timothy Murphy
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More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.
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Tim Murphy
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
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Iris Murdoch
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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Iris Murdoch
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Iris Murdoch
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
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Kate Mulgrew
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I like marriage. The idea.
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Toni Morrison
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No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
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Dick Morris
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When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
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Michael Moriarty
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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
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Robin Morgan
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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Thomas Moore
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The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
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Demi Moore
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Michel Montaigne
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Michel Montaigne
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Michel Montaigne
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Michel Montaigne
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Moliere
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Moliere
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I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.
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Stephanie Mills
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It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
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Spike Milligan
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The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
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Jeff Miller
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Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
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Dennis Miller
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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.
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H. Mencken
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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H. Mencken
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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H. Mencken
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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Menander
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The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
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Ken Mehlman
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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.
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Kendrick Meek
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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.
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Kendrick Meek
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Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
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Jayne Meadows
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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Ian Mckellen
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There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
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Millicent McIntosh
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
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Phil McGraw
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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Patrick McGoohan
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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.
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Phyllis McGinley
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If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
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Tom McClintock
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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
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Linda McCartney
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I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
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Linda McCartney
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My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
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Mercedes McCambridge
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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Andre Maurois
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Andre Maurois
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Andre Maurois
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Guy Maupassant
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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W. Maugham
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So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
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Kathy Mattea
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
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Groucho Marx
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
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Groucho Marx
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The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
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Paul Martin
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I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
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Paul Martin
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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Gabriel Marquez
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I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
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Marla Maples
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I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
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Marla Maples
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By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
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Barbara Mandrell
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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
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Norman Mailer
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Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.
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Bill Maher
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It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
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Agnes Macphail
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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Gavin MacLeod
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Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
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Loretta Lynn
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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Martin Luther
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If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
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Shelley Long
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I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.
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Julie London
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Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?
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Lindsay Lohan
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Abraham Lincoln
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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C. Lewis
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We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
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Amy Levy
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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Sam Levenson
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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.
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Norman Lear
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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Christopher Lasch
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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
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Ann Landers
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
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Ann Landers
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I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
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Burt Lancaster
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Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
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Nick Lampson
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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.
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Hedy Lamarr
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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.
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Hedy Lamarr
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Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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Hedy Lamarr
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The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.
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James Lafferty
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Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
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Nick Lachey
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I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.
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Joe Klein
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I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.
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Robert Kirkman
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I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
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Sally Kirkland
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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
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Michael Kinsley
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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.
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Jack Kingston
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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Jack Kingston
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
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Jack Kingston
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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Jack Kingston
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Jack Kingston
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If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
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Jack Kingston
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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.
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Florence King
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
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Coretta King
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
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Alan King
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Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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Alan King
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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Omar Khayyam
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It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
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Alan Keyes
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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Ellen Key
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I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
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Vanessa Kerry
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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Jackie Kennedy
