To me marriage is for five or ten years.
Cher

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Linda McCartney

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
Linda McCartney

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
Damon Wayans

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
Ava Gardner

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Rutherford B. Hayes

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
Robert Downey, Jr.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
Les Dawson

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Helen Rowland

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland