Louis Jourdan Quotes

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

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 have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

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!'

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.

If you're going to be married for a long time, I think you'll have a fair number of moments where you question things, no matter how good your marriage is.

I have been blessed being married to the same woman for 61 years. I honestly believe that if I retired, we may not make it to 62.

My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had.

I believe in a marriage that could last and stand the test of time.

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

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.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I always vowed I would never get married because no marriage in my family had worked, really. But you get to a place in your relationship where you're like, 'OK, it's time.'

I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.