In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. Colin Powell
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? Samuel Butler
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. Alain de Botton
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. Elizabeth Edwards
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. Ingrid Bergman
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. Helen Rowland
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work. Princess Diana
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. Earl Warren
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. Dick Gregory
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. Ellen DeGeneres
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together. Michael J. Fox
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. George W. Bush
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. Jerry Seinfeld