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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

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

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

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

I think it is 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.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it is 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 was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I am 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 is not in dire straits.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it did not.

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

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

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That is a good thing.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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

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

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.