Quotes About Priorities

Sometimes I regret that I don't have a bit more fun with money. I should have spoilt myself a bit more. Life isn't going to last for ever.

It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

I love you more than I hate everything else.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Marriage has just never interested me.