Available Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love…

— Honore de Balzac

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

— Jodi Picoult

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union…

— Bill Frist

“Marriage is a sacrament that exists partially to protect women from sexual exploitation. If you take that protection away from her, then she is…

— Sylvain Reynard

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very…

— David Vitter

[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.

— Michael Warner

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

— Saint Francis de Sales

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

— William O. Douglas

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

— Honore de Balzac