Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.

My advice to you is get married: If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

I'm a mother now and married, and knowing what I know now, I would definitely have gone about things quite differently.

I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

You're learning things. As you get older, you're experiencing them. You learn about what it means to be sacrificial. Then, you get married or something like that and you think, "Oh, wow! This is the real deal."

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle!

The great thing about getting older is living life.