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On Marriage Quotes

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
- Michele Bachmann

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
- Emily Blunt

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
- Michael Enzi

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out
of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a
short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
- Thomas Hardy

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
- Felicity Huffman

[On marriage and permanent attachment:]
Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.
- Dorothy L Sayers

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.
- David Limbaugh

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
- Agnes Macphail

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.
- Keith Obrien

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.
- Keith Obrien

My father was very big on marriage.
- Sidney Poitier

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
- Mark Ruffalo

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.
- Nancy Werlin

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.
- Nancy Werlin

The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.
- Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

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