#marriages

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#age #amend #amendment #any #ban

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#i #into #lost #man #marriages

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#arranged #basis #bride #described #marriages

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#four #i #marriages #only #regret

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. ↗

— Ted Turner

#it is what it is #marriages #more #regret #successful

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#because #break #break up #even #golf

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#happiest #holiest #idea #lifted #live

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#end #fewer #happiness #look #marriage

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#begin #even #friendships #gay #last

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting