Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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!'

For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, 'Oh, you're too young,' because it's become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.

I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that's not always the reality of it.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

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.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.

It's never too early to get married now.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's that we compare ourselves to our parents' generation, thinking, 'Who's still together, and are they happy?'

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.

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.

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.