Minnie Pearl Quotes

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

I had loved Tiger for 47 years, was married to him for almost 43. We didn't make it to 50. But it was a memorable partnership; certainly, an enriching one for me.

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

I would recommend getting married young. That way you don't have all the baggage.

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.

I'm a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

I've been married over 50 years of my life.

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

I like marriage. The idea.

Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support.

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.