Stay Married Quotes

#1. Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

Pam Houston

#2. I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

Wavy Gravy

#3. You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

Mike Tyson

#4. It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Paul Newman

#6. Studies show that 70% of people who marry their best friend stay married their entire lifetime.

Shelly Crane

#7. You never know the complicated deals two people negotiate in order to stay married beyond the first ten minutes.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

Michele Bachmann

#9. I love him. I don't know what kind of love it is, and I don't know if he loves me back. Even if he does, I don't know if he'll want to stay married." Will's throat aches. "Or if I do." Owen

Leta Blake

#10. For a man to get married and stay married, he must detach from and disavow the three things that bind him to reality: sex, travel, and near-death experiences.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#11. But, I knew I didn't believe in
divorce. You couldn't make vows and just break them. If I married a woman, I was going to stay married. I wouldn't treat marriage like a lease. Ever.

Tarryn Fisher

#12. Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Katharine Whitehorn

#13. Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

Phil Robertson

#14. You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

Ashley Judd

#15. The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cathy Moriarty

#16. For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

Ray Romano

#17. It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Rodney Dangerfield

#18. Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.

Timothy Egan

#19. I was married a lot, but I didn't stay married very long because I didn't seem to be able to choose somebody that was a stable man.

Georgia Holt

#20. I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

Woody Allen

#21. I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring and the Olympics are gay.

Bill Maher

#22. My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

Barbara Corcoran

#23. What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family?

Duniya Vijay

#24. Don't stay married to your job too long," she says. "One of these days you're going to wake up and you might be lonely, and you've squandered the best years of your life away for the one thing that can never love you back.

Winter Renshaw

#25. When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

Deborah Moggach

#26. Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#27. People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

Sofia Vergara

#28. You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

Olympia Dukakis

#29. Getting married and staying married is a wonderful way to increase your wealth - but the key is stay married.

Kyra Zagorsky

#30. Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

Hank Aaron

#31. How many married couples who stay married until one of them dies can honestly say that they weren't terribly bored at times?

Holly Chamberlin

#32. Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Zoe Akins

#33. I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#34. According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

David Letterman

#35. People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

Paul Tough

#36. I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

Barry Mann

#37. Determined and focused people tend to work harder and get tasks done more promptly. They stay married longer and have deeper networks of friends. They often have higher-paying jobs. But this questionnaire is not intended to test personal organization. Rather, it's designed to measure a personality

Charles Duhigg

#38. I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#39. You stay married thirty-four years, you don't have to prove who's got the bigger balls. Just take it for granted she does.

Jamie Farrell

#40. I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

Jemima Kirke

#41. It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.

Amy Bloom

#42. My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

Guy Fieri

#43. Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.

Christopher Moore

#44. Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

Errol Flynn

#45. As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

Bernhard Schlink

#46. It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Mae West

#47. If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there's no question - stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can't imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you'd never have to face otherwise.

Gary L. Thomas

#48. It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Helen Rowland

#49. One married couple goes out to a restaurant twice a week for dinner. They spend $160 a month on eating out. They get fat. Another married couple invests $160 a month in their own network marketing business. They stay slim and healthy. In a few years they retire.

Tom "Big Al" Schreiter

#50. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!

Ngina Otiende

#51. Stay with me."
"We're married," she whispered. "Of course I'll stay."
"You could decide to leave me."
"I won't." "Promise me."
"I have promised. I do promise.

Jennifer Ashley

#52. Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Carrie Snow

#53. Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.
Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

Jandy Nelson

#54. I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

Frankie Valli

#55. Some people need at least a thousand kilometers between them to stay happily married. But

Anthony Marra

#56. How much did you love her?" Jane asked. "Your wife. Kathy. When people are married for a long time, maybe they stay together out of habit." "Sometimes they do," I said. "But I loved her very much. All the time we were married. I love her now.

John Scalzi

#57. The goal should not be getting married at the right age but to find love which will stay forever

Subhasis Das

#58. I won't stay in
with married men
any more
said the wise girl
they're too agreeable,
it's a little too much
like curling
up
with the good book.
You mean
a
good book
Oh, dear,
did I say
the
good book
sighed the witch.

Norman Mailer

#59. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

Randy Pausch

#60. Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong
to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.

T.M. McNally

#61. who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vivacity of what will be?

Mary Oliver

#62. The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

Adriana Trigiani

#63. Stay and get married, or travel the Ways." Loial grimaced ruefully. "Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.

Robert Jordan

#64. If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
As though she bid me stay by her a week.
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.

William Shakespeare

#65. I'd overheard her several times on her lunch breaks, talking about how she wanted to be married before she turned twenty five. She also apparently wanted to be a stay-at-home mom with six kids, and live in a house in the suburbs. In other words, she was completely out of her fucking mind.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#66. In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#67. What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#68. My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Gene Tierney

#69. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Finley Peter Dunne

#70. No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

H.L. Mencken

#71. I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

James Frey

#72. Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.

Peter Capaldi

#73. We're married now. We're married.
You don't know when you're twenty-three.
You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin.

Rainbow Rowell

#74. Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

Frederick Lenz

#75. What do you want to know from the astrologer, akka?" "Will I get married? Or will I have to stay single all my life?

Sumeetha Manikandan

#76. I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped.

Maisie Williams

#77. My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

Christopher Walken

#78. Someone who'll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I'm curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I'm tired of dating actresses.

Shahid Kapoor

#79. If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

Mark Burnett