So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.

I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

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