Subject: Marriage (Page 25)

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings."

(1888 – 1960) Austrian writer

Will you take this woman to be your awful wedded wife?

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

My wife gets so jealous; she came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

A wife is a friend first, a lover second, and third and probably most important, a maid.

(1982 – ) American author

Alimony: Bounty after the mutiny.

typographer

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

(1772 – 1834) English poet, literary critic & philosopher

The concept of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

(1890 – 1971) English humorist, novelist & playwright

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

(1913 – 1989) American radio, television, film & voice actor

Last week I planned my husband’s funeral; he hasn’t died yet, it’s just what I do when he annoys me.

comedian & actress

Wife Swapping: Sexual fourplay.

[Marriage] is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.

As soon as they get married, they all get these big old guts on them; that's not from drinking beer – that's from swallowing pride.

stand-up comedian

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

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse – as a man shoots himself.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

You might be a redneck if… you smoked during your wedding.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, “You're only interested in one thing,” and you can't remember what it is.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

(1864 – 1943) English writer

After you say you do… you don’t… for a long time.

(1964 – ) Colombian-American actor, producer, playwright & screenwriter