| Tom McClintock |  If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
Tom McClintock |
| Tommy Cooper | Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!
Tommy Cooper |
| Toni Morrison | I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison |
| Tony Campolo | But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
Tony Campolo |
| Tony Campolo | I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
Tony Campolo |
| traditional | I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
Alan Autry
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| twins | My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old at the time of my mother's re-marriage. |
| upright | and Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before they could grasp what she was saying. |
| Utada Hikaru | I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
Utada Hikaru |
| vagabondism | The tendency to vagabondism is said to be due to marriage with "foreign" women.
American anthropologist - Page 172 |
| Vanessa Kerry | I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Vanessa Kerry |
| Vera Brittain | I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain |
| Vicki Baum | Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum |
| W. H. Auden | Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham |
| Warren Beatty | Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty |
| Washington Irving | Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving |
| William Congreve | Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve |
| William Hazlitt | Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt |
| William O. Douglas | Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas |
