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.

How long before we have not just homosexual marriage but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.

My kids have moved more in their twenties you know than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost and that is a sense of community.

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl the life I had before - being single in a band girls everywhere - would be over.

Before marriage many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered and the smile that lights on the first born babe and assures it of a mother's love.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with language.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Before marriage a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage she has to hold him to make love to him.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is or very soon will be void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.