Marriage Benefits Quotes

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem.

The origins of modern marital instability lie largely in the triumph of what many people believe to be marriage's traditional role - providing love, intimacy, fidelity, and mutual fulfillment. The truth is that for centuries, marriage was stable precisely because it was not expected to provide such benefits.

Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.

I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn't marry because I had to change.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

Right now if you get married, you lose all your benefits. We should reward people for getting married

Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.

You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.