That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy we talked for hours. It was a relief really.

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

Well marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society we ought to aim for the ideal.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

When undertaking marriage everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts and take counsel from himself.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people how you argue how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us than them that love us more than we would have them do.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.