Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I am most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you do not have that, you really do not have very much.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A man friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that is called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

I am also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I like marriage. The idea.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I do not know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I have had it. Three times is enough.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.

Marriage changes everything.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just do not know, but they do.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.