Marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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

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

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

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.

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.