#marriage

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#by the people #constitutional #creation #defined #families

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#i #know #lasting #marriage #odds

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#climate #happy #happy marriage #husband #landscape

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #time #experience

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. ↗

— Robert Burton

#another #hell #his #married #never

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

— Samuel Butler

#distinctly #excluded #felicity #general #heaven

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. ↗

— David Byrne

#always #been #fix #guess #happy

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. ↗

— Vince Cable

#been #comfortable #conclusions #draw #had

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#cultural #holding #institution #man #marriage