Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Before marriage many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy and that is marriage. I think for instance that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair then the marriage then children and finally the fourth stage without which you cannot know a woman the divorce.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

After a while in marriage it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something and after a while we hate what we used to love.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity the marriage is more important than fidelity.

I think even in a good marriage especially if you stay together long enough there are going to be events that happen.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well in the storybooks I read there were never long long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

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 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.

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

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

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there and the couples live happy lives and there's nothing wrong with it.

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

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

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.

There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.