Robert Burton Quotes

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it's the same is lying.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

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

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

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

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.