Alfred de Vigny Quotes

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

… the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress…

Women always left me because I wouldn't commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.

I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

Every day is a dream, every day I spend with my wife.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.

My wife, the star I steer by.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.