I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

I wanted my marriage to work but it didn't.

I was a bartender for a long time so I know how to make drinks but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did and why I get to produce more writing than she did and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy and that is marriage. I think for instance that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage is a big deal but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

Most of these alternative arrangements so-called arise out of the ruins of marriages not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Of all actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

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

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Well my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair then the marriage then children and finally the fourth stage without which you cannot know a woman the divorce.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

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.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.