#marriage

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bed #field #life #like #marriage

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #degeneration #fatty #his #man

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conversation #disputes #long #marriage

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. ↗

— John Sununu

#defining #forced #laws #left #legal

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. ↗

— Jim Talent

#discouraging #families #foundation #future #hurting

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#earth #nothing #place #take #works

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#appalled #attack #bush #constitutional #constitutional amendment

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#benefits #divorce #elicit #ever #friends

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #america #another #around #believe