When a man opens a car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.
If I felt in the event of a royal wedding inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't I'd ignore it.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.
Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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.
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace in marriage in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting rebellious time.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
A man marries to have a home but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
Before marriage a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage she has to hold him to make love to him.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and as I call them fights and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage to put together a family and a home.
In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However most of us don't want to call it marriage because we think that word has religious connotations and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me as a legal ceremonial sentimental and religious side it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps like not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
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.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards I believe the American family.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream and not as it too often is the end.
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality but must live with a character.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding and we got offered millions of dollars for them millions.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood the best in a marriage the kind of people we are trying to become.
My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together as a team.