#marriage

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#any #between #ever #had #i

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#class #clear #first #freedom #freedom of religion

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#both #definition #directed #gays #great

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#believe #between #culture #debates #democratic

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#divorce #easier #fifty #hard #less

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#about #anything #devotion #knows #like

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#bribe #housekeeper #make #she #think

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