Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West 
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water.
After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
- Minnie Pearl
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -
a practice which is still continued.
- Helen Rowland
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
- Anonymous
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is more of good nature than of good sense
at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
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