Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

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

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

My wife and I love each other very much.

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

I love Brad in every state.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

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

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

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

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I always play women I would date.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.