Peter De Vries Quotes

I'd like to settle and have a family and get married when I'm, like, 30.

There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

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.

Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.

I had never thought of settling down. I had started believing I was always going to live alone. Marriage was the last thing on my agenda.

That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.