My mother brave woman lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart she had to come back to her family.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage' as it is called is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work and it is a gamble.

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone in my opinion who you have to try hard for.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Another argument vaguer and even less persuasive is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.

The first time you marry for love the second for money and the third for companionship.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later for another thing they die earlier.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars would sign over half to me and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor don't marry out of your race.