Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

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