Marriage Stability Quotes

My wife and I are rock solid together and, curiously enough, always have been.

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

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!'

The origins of modern marital instability lie largely in the triumph of what many people believe to be marriage's traditional role - providing love, intimacy, fidelity, and mutual fulfillment. The truth is that for centuries, marriage was stable precisely because it was not expected to provide such benefits.

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

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

I think in any relationship in this industry, there's a stress on relationships. I think that's reality, but in no way do I think that if a relationship is meant to be together and a marriage is meant to be together, that anything like a show or being in this industry can change that.

… the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

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 don't want to make any mistakes. My parents have been married for 40 years. I want to stay married.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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.