Famous Quotes

"When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary."

Andrew Sullivan on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

  Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

• "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Marriage

• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

• "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

  Oscar Wilde on Marriage

• "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

  James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Andrew Sullivan

• "I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago."

• "What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship."

• "You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true."

• "My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."

• "The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting."