The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.