“Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.”
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“Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.”
“Marriage has just never interested me.”
“I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.”
“Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.”
“Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.”
“When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.”
“A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.”
“To me marriage is for five or ten years.”
“It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.”
“My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
“Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.”
“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.”
“Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.”
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”
“A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.”
“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.”
“Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!”
“I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.”
“I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.”
“Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.”