“In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.”
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“My father was very big on marriage.”
“I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.”
“I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.”
“The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.”
“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.”
“There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.”
“Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.”
“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.”
“One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.”
“It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.”
“I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.”
“Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.”
“There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.”
“Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.”
“Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.”
“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.”
“A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.”
“I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.”
“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.”
“People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.”
“Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?”
“I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.”
“I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.”