#marriage

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

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ↗

— George Will

#experience #hope #know #marriage #over

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

— Darrell Royal

#i #know #lasting #marriage #odds

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#after #before #girl #him #hold

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#between #blind #deaf #good #good marriage

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #marriage #public

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. ↗

— Mike Myers

#marriage #room #viewed #waiting

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades