Life and Existence

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his check book open.

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage.

To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup; whenever you're wrong, admit it, whenever you're right, shut up.

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.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion.