#marriage

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#character #difficulty #fall #live #love

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#clearest #explanation #failure #female #incompatible

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #marriage #taxes #funny

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#certain #ever #friends #gift #greatest

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#correct #create #does #find #form

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#because #believe #constitutes #contract #exclusively

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#did #i #know #marriage #want

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#big #bottom #cross #ended #felt

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

#average #average man #done #expensive #get

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#costs #debate #decide #decision #each