I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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!'
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.
I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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.
I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone's expectations.
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.
I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
I've been married for 23 years to Jeff McDonald from Redd Kross.
... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.
My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
