Subject: Marriage (Page 3)

Marriage is like having cable with one channel.

(Nathaniel Stroman) (1963 – ) American actor, voice artist & comedian

When someone asked me once if I ever thought of leaving Bill, I asked, “Where?”

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Do you Edith….take Archie Bunker to be your lawfully bedded husband?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You might be a redneck if… you've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

My last boyfriend gave me a piece of coal, and he told me that he would marry me when it turned into a diamond from all the pressure.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

Altar: Place where a man loses control of himself.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

(1788 – 1860) German philosopher

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

(1885 – 1968) American writer

Most wives are like ventriloquists: they stand there nodding while the dummy does all the talking.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

I never married because there was no need: I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband – I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

(1855 – 1924) English writer

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.

Bigamist: A man who keeps two himself.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

Rejoinder: Married his ex.

Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.

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

If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.

The first time you go out after your wife’s birthday, you will see the gift you gave her marked down fifty percent.
Corollary: If she’s with you, she’ll assume you chose it because it was cheap.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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