Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.
I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.
Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
Pope Francis has mentioned several times in public prior to 'Amoris Laetitia''s release that lack of work was keeping young people from marriage. He has also riffed on married life and 'mothers-in-law,' but this document shows that, even more than a theologian, he is a pastor.
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
