“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.”
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“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.”
“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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?”
“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.”
“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“Marriage is a great institution.”
“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.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
“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.”
“I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.”
“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.”
“The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.”
“I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.”
“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.”
“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.”
“This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?”
“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”