Like me the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

If marriage really is a sacred institution then why is the government controlling it especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Marriage is a very good thing but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Every good relationship especially marriage is based on respect. If it's not based on respect nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness a covenant between radically different persons male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen a covenant between radically different partners.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and as I call them fights and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Remember that children marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face I like to say 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

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

I like marriage. The idea.