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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. Nanette Newman
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. Harlan Miller
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire
The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage. Anonymous
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. Thomas Fuller
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Carolyn Heilbrun
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. Bertrand Russell
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer
There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear. Thomas Chatterton
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. Francis Picabia
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare
She is a wife who is the soul of her husband. Hitopadesa
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. Queen Victoria
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike
When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. Hitopadesa
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it. Morton Hunt
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. H. L. Mencken
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. J. Paul Getty
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. Hesiod
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. Hoshang N. Akhtar
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. Harriet Martineau
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the ''y'' is silent. W. A. Clarke
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. Jill Bennett
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. Barbara Bush
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. Joseph Barth
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Ambrose Bierce
My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes. Mal Pancoast
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. Karl Kraus
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church. John Paul II
You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam. Oliver Goldsmith
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. Phyllis Mcginley
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. Dr. Joyce Brothers
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Anonymous
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. Pauline Thomason
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good. Robert Louis Stevenson
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen B. Leacock
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. Lord Byron
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony. George Farquhar
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton
There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. Daniel Chopin
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. John Lyly
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. Harriet Martineau
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. Cass Daley
The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him. Anonymous
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Francis Bacon
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. Irwin Cory
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose your wife as you wish your children to be. Proverb
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Phyllis Diller
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. Samuel Pepys
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. Donald H. Mcgannon
A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. Madame De Rieux
Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard. Proverb
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. Marquis De Sade
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Red Skelton
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. Mickey Rooney
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out. Arabian Proverb
I hate work. That's why I got married. Peg Bundy
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. Oscar Wilde
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. Jean De La Bruyere
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. Novalis
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. Friedrich Nietzsche
He who marries for money earns it. Yiddish Proverb
We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are. Richard Henry Stoddard
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. Scottish Proverb
Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate. Dennis Rainey
Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Anonymous
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. Vicki Baum
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. Honore De Balzac
Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. Henry Lewis Stimson
Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it. Elbert Hubbard
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. H. L. Mencken
Love is often the fruit of marriage. MoliFre
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key
Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. Henry Fielding
Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife. German Proverb
The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge. Patrick Campbell
If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself. H. L. Mencken
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25] Bible
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. Anonymous
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me. Anna Nicole Smith
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. Helen Rowland
When you get married you forget about kissing other women. Pat Boone
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C. S. Lewis
The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy. Stephen Sondheim
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries
Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife. Proverb
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. Archie Bunker
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. Douglas William Jerrold
I was so cold the other day, I almost got married. Shelley Winters
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. Ovid
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. Groucho Marx
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr
Marriage is a mistake every man should make. Sir George Jessel
It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men. Mae West
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. Anonymous
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. Barbara De Angelis
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. Oscar Wilde
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it. Mark Twain
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. William Congreve
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. Brigham Young
Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord. Bible
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. Sir Richard Steele
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Baskins
When a match has equal partners then I fear not. Aeschylus
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing. Marie Carmichael Stopes
If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. F. M. Knowles
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. Samuel Johnson
Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other. Sammy Cahn
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. Samuel Johnson
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.. Woody Allen
All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems. Raymond Hull
As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them. Josh Billings
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. Lord Byron
One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage. Anonymous
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. Barbara De Angelis
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. Herbert Samuel
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. Oscar Wilde
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning. Jane Harrison
In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. Shelley Winters
The day you marry, it is either kill or cure. Spanish Proverb
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. Zig Ziglar
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. Cyril Connolly
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. Anonymous
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. Samuel Johnson
Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented. Heinrich Heine
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. Anonymous
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. Lord Byron
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. Lewis Grizzard
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed. Germaine Greer
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it. Ogden Nash
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. Louis K. Anspacher
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried. Charles Caleb Colton
My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met! Rodney Dangerfield
When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste. Charles Dickens
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex! Simone Signoret
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Oscar Wilde
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. Noel Coward
The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so. Thornton Wilder
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. Ambrose Bierce
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. Dr. James C. Dobson
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. Anonymous
I married beneath me. All women do. Lady Nancy Astor
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. George Bernard Shaw
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Queen Victoria
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. Benjamin Franklin
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked. Bill Cosby
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. James Graham
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. John Barrymore
Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God. Cecil Myers
Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is the sunset of love. French Proverb
You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self. Jerry Mccant
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore De Balzac
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Isadora Duncan
Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it. Anonymous
Marriage is socialism among two people. Barbara Ehrenreich
You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't. Proverb
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. Elizabeth I
In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense. Ruckett
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? Barbara Streisand
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. Rodney Dangerfield
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! Elizabeth Gaskell
One fool at least in every married couple. Henry Fielding
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. Helen Rowland
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. Ogden Nash
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. Bette Davis
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. Helen Rowland
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. Matthew Prior
To marry unequally is to suffer equally. Henri Frederic Amiel
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. Alexis Dupuy
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. Ezra Pound
I think like any marriage, especially when you?ve had divorced parents like myself, you?d want to try even harder to make it work. Princess of Wales Diana
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. Michael J. Fox
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband! Shana Alexander
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. Jackie Mason
In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body. William Penn
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn
Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.'' Irving Layton
We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. MoliFre
If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. Gary Smalley
After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in. Dennis Miller
I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person. Margaret Mead
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Soren Kierkegaard
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson
Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24] Bible
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30] Bible
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. Sam Kinison
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. Anonymous
Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married. Anonymous
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter De Vries
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can. Queen Victoria
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. Billy Sunday
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. Richard Ford
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. Helen Rowland
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Arthur Schopenhauer
No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes. Anonymous
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. Erica Jong
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. Helen Rowland
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he! Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. Anonymous
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. John Updike
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Anonymous
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. Earl Wilson
I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce. Susan Vass
Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover spam. Johnny Carson
Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly. Peter De Vries
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late. Max Kauffman
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. Edith Wharton
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. Marty Allen
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. Halen
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. Washington Irving
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. John Lennon
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. Abraham Lincoln
Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. Sydney Smith
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials. Cynthia Nelms
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. George Bernard Shaw
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. William Wycherley
Those that marry for money sell their liberty. Proverb
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.'' De Finod
It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. Scottish Proverb
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. Will Rogers
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