#marriages

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#deciding #divorced #gay #gay marriage #get

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#come #commitment #cruelty #desert #each

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ↗

— Doug Larson

#after #better #comes #marriages #might

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#arise #arrangements #fashioned #improvement #marriage

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friendship #lack #love #makes #marriages

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#clearly #husband #many #marriages #same

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together. ↗

— John Deacon

#last #long #lot #marriages #queen

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#amazing #because #being #example #good

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#grateful #had #hadn #i #i am

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. ↗

— Robbie Williams

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