Marital longevity Quotes

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

If we can survive being married and working on a soap together, commuting back and forth when we lived in New Jersey, and we didn't get divorced then, we're never gonna get divorced.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

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.

When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.

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

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?'

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.