Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

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

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

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

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.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

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

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

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

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

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

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

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

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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

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

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

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

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.

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

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.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

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

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

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

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.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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

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

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.