Roger Ebert Quotes

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

I feel like until you're with the person, the person you end up marrying, you don't ever really know what you're looking for. I'm just into a girl with a really good personality, something that goes beyond looks. I want to be able to joke around, be respectful of each other... there are a lot of things that go into compatibility.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

The odds are definitely better on getting the right job than getting a good partner for life. Someone who will grow with you. Someone to develop memories with. Someone who was there in the beginning. Someone who will be there at the end.

The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys.

They say the most important decision you make in life is your choice of a spouse. I've been lucky with that.

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.