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1. "Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it."

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Other categories: Love

2. "Marriage is a bad proposition, half end in divorce, and the other half end in death."

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3. "When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend."

Menander, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Woman and Man

4. "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, "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Other categories: Love

5. "Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."

Vicki Baum, "And Life Goes On"

6. "The law says you can have only one spouse. This is called monotony."

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Other categories: Law and Crime

7. "Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit."

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Other categories: Work and Laziness

8. "Bachelors have consciences. Married men have wives."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

9. "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them."

Sydney Smith

10. "My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit."

Jerry Hall

Other categories: Woman and Man

11. "A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."

Milton Berle

Other categories: Forgiveness

12. "Every woman should marry - and no man."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair"

Other categories: Woman and Man

13. "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."

Clint Eastwood

Other categories: Happiness

14. "There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

15. "Of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife."

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Other categories: Love

16. "A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness."

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Other categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Happiness

17. "Marriage has its good side. It teaches you loyalty, forebearance, tolerance, self-restraint, and other valuable qualities you wouldn't need if you'd stayed single."

Allan Pease, "Why men don't Listen and Women can't read Maps"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

18. "Marriage is a covered dish."

Swiss Proverb

19. "Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Happiness

20. "Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition."

Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"

Other categories: Peace and War -:- Woman and Man

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21. "Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."

Richard Ford, "The Sportswriter"

22. "He was happily married - but his wife wasn't."

Victor Borge

Other categories: Happiness

23. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley: In Search of America"

Other categories: Various

24. "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."

John Wilmot

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

25. "If you fear loneliness, then don't get married."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

26. "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

Ogden Nash

27. "I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."

Rodney Dangerfield

Other categories: Oration and Silence

28. "A really good detective never gets married."

Raymond Chandler

29. "Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."

Ken Dodd

Other categories: Various

30. "Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity."

Khalil Gibran

31. "An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man

32. "I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

33. "A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."

Pierre Corneille, "Nicomede"

Other categories: Authority, Government

34. "When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife."

Henry Louis Mencken

Other categories: Trust

35. "What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."

Cindy Gardner

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

36. "I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

Christopher Hampton, "Dangerous Liaisons"

Other categories: Success and Fame

37. "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Ellen Key, "The Morality of Woman"

Other categories: Love

38. "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, "The Snake Has All the Lines"

Other categories: Woman and Man

39. "Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."

English proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

40. "A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag."

Jewish proverb

Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Woman and Man

41. "Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond."

Thomas Love Peacock

42. "Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

John Updike, "Couples"

43. "If married couples did not live together good marriages would be more common."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

44. "A good husband is healthy and absent."

Japanese proverb

45. "Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Iris Murdoch, "The Message to the Planet"

Other categories: Woman and Man

46. "When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"

Shana Alexander, "State-by-State Guide to Women`s Legal Rights"

Other categories: Law and Crime

47. "If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England."

George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"

Other categories: Happiness

48. "Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do."

Bettina Arndt, "Private Lives"

Other categories: Woman and Man

49. "In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship."

Jean Marzollo, "Your Maternity Leave"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

50. "Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Joseph Barth

Other categories: Youth and Age

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