James H. Boren

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

Honore de Balzac

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

Michel de Montaigne

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."

Helen Rowland

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

W. Somerset Maugham

"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married."

H. L. Mencken

"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."

Joey Adams

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

Mignon McLaughlin

"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."

Paul Sweeney

"A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers."

Grace Hansen

"All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble."

Raymond Hull

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."

Sydney J. Harris

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

Isadora Duncan

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."

H. L. Mencken

"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?"

Alan King

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."

Marilyn Monroe

"Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper."

Helen Rowland

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."

Jean Kerr

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

Ambrose Bierce

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."

Henry Youngman

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

James C. Dobson

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

Zsa Zsa Gabor

"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."

Mae West

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde