#marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ↗

— George Eliot

#either #marriage #must #relation #sympathy

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. ↗

— John Boehner

#children #emphasized #family #foundation #importance

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. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#been #companion #dinner #done #go

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#bust #choice #detroit #failed #feel

You can't know about marriage until you try it. ↗

— Greg Evigan

#know #marriage #try #until #you

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#asks #career #combine #ever #father

I love marriage. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i love #love #marriage

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#man #marriage #sticking #true

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#believed #break #break up #court #divorced