Subject: Marriage (Page 24)

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

One night I figured – let my wife make the first move… she went to Florida.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Don’t marry a man to reform him; that’s what reform schools are for.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Al, when I married you for richer or poorer, I thought we'd try one and then the other and then choose. I think we've gone just about as far as we can go with the first one.

(1954 – ) American actress & singer-songwriter

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

I recently got married… it was like a reverse Lord of the Rings situation – I got a ring and I lost half of my powers.

(1985 – ) American comedian & actor

You’re supposed to spend two months worth of salary on an engagement ring, so when I get engaged, some lucky lady will receive a piece of Life Savers candy.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Don’t forget Mother’s Day; or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

My first wife, I’ll never forget her… and I’ve tried.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

Two mothers-in-law.

(1832 – 1900) Irish statesman

I was gonna do that mail order bride thing, but you don't know, because if you ain't home and your neighbor signs for her, she's out there mowing his lawn.

stand-up comedian

Every American woman has two souls to call her own, the other being her husband's.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand; she lit it.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

Generally speaking, my wife is generally speaking.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women; it's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast time.

(1890 – 1971) English humorist, novelist & playwright

A fate worse than marriage; a sort of eternal engagement.

(1939 – ) English playwright

The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.


Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do… but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.