Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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!'

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

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

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37.

When I got married to Raja in 1999, I was 19; I was too young to understand that he was not the right guy for me.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.

I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.