But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Marriage is the most natural state of man and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved and you can have great marriages and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father the male and the female sort of gradually having their marriage.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together as a team.