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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov

This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right. -Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers

The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- Coleridge

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string? -Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)

My wife and I were happy for 20 years - then we met. -Rodney Dangerfield

A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

It (marriage) may be compared to a cage, the birds without try desperately to get in, and those within try desperately to get out. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. -Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)

'But every eye wanders from time to time and the moment comes when he is comparing his wife to other women , while she is comparing him to solitude' Pollit 1986

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates 469-399 B.C.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. -Oscar Wilde


A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers.

Marriage is a rest period between romances.

Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.

Marriage is a trip between Niagra Falls and Reno.

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of person your spouse would have really preferred.


Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.


Man is better off than woman; he marries later and dies sooner.


Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.