Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.