Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Sometimes after marriage, one really gets to know his or her partner after three or four outings. But for us, we knew each other's eating as well as living habits.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a lot of advice in that area, just spending quantity time with the one you love and the one you care about because that's when you really develop a relationship.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

I think the best way to keep a relationship hot is to simply try to make time for each other. That's it.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.

In the end, if you can't trust each other, what's the point of being married?