marriage quotes

“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”

— Honore de Balzac

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”

— Moliere

“Books and marriage go ill together.”

— Moliere

“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ”

— Franz Kafka

“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.”

— Eminem

“Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ”

— Jim Carrey

“Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? ”

— Hillary Clinton

“There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.”

— Kim Kardashian

“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”

— Groucho Marx

“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.”

— Groucho Marx

“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”

— Barack Obama

“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.”

— Barack Obama

“What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.”

— Barack Obama

“I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.”

— Barack Obama

“I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.”

— Barack Obama

“Marriage changes everything.”

— Marilyn Manson

“I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.”

— Joel Osteen

“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.”

— Ron Paul

“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”

— Colin Powell

“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”

— Colin Powell

“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.”

— Pope John Paul II