“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”
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“I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.”
“Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.”
“Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.”
“I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.”
“I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.”
“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.”
“After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.”
“Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.”
“Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.”
“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.”
“It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.”
“Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.”
“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.”
“A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.”
“I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.”
“I love marriage.”
“I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.”
“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.”
“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.”
“Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.”