“I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.”
Marriage is a long conversation, and these quotes capture many of its chapters — the romance, the compromise, the arguments, the inside jokes, and the deep comfort of being truly known by another person over decades.
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
“I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.”
“When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.”
“And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.”
“Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.”
“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.”
“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”
“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
“I don't know if I'm built for marriage.”
“Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.”
“I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.”
“Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.”
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
“You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
“My father was very big on marriage.”