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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

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

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least – at a minimum – I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively – presumptuous to say – relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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.

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

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

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.‘

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.

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.

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

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

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

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

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.

Marriage is the death of hope.