Pastoral Resources

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

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.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.