#marriage

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#love #marriage #love

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#already #contract #contracts #enough #financial

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Harold Ford

#been #being #choice #could #further

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#big #children #complete #fan #human

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #date #divorce #however #i

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#faith #gay #gay marriage #issue #issues

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. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#bad #could #doubt #ever #everything

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#about #believed #changed #color #democrat

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#chance #couples #day #elimination #gift