I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that’s whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.