Marriage Statistics Quotes

The total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

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

I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

Divorce isn't caused because 50% of marriages end in gayness.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

People make assumptions when you're not married. I've been best man at five weddings and I said I'd never do it again 'cos everyone got divorced.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Marriage is not super-important to me - most end in divorce. I love the idea of being with someone forever, but I don't think it happens very often.

If you're getting married less you're getting less divorces.

Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

I got engaged, married, and divorced in 15 months in Hollywood, so, you know what I'm saying? We're out here putting rings on it! That's what our generation does, we put a ring on it, you know what I'm saying?