Quotes About Why Marriage Fails

#1. I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#2. I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

Kathy Najimy

#3. When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

#4. Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.

James Coco

#6. Love is dirty-sloppy-stupid. The problem has always been: How do we contain such a dangerous substance (love) in the confines of holy matrimony without hurting or killing someone?
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#7. It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#8. Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

Vaughn Walker

#9. When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

Tori Spelling

#10. Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

Hilaire Belloc

#11. Do I dare to hope? Damn it. Yes, I do.

E.L. James

#12. Violence begins when imagination fails.

Stephen Evans