1,"The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. -Harold Nicholson"
2,"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution, yet. -Mae West"
3,"The honeymoon is over when he phones that he'll be late for supper--and she has already left a note that it's in the refrigerator. -Bill Lawrence"
4,"Marriage--a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves--making in all two. -Ambrose Bierce"
5,"Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. -Mrs. Patrick Campbell"
6,"Matrimony is the process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. -Francis Rodman"
7,"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. -H. L. Mencken"
8,"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"
9,"The critical period in matrimony is breakfast time. -A.P. Herbert"
10,"Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. -Harlan Miller"
11,"Marriage is a mistake every man should make. -George Jessel"
12,"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. -Zsa Zsa Gabor"
13,"Niagara Falls is only the second biggest disappointment of the standard honeymoon. -Oscar Wilde"
14,"Let there be spaces in your Togetherness. -Kahlil Gibran"
15,"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint Exupery"
16,"Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -Robert Browning"
17,"When one thinks of how many people there are that one does not in the least want to marry, and how many there are that do not in the least want to marry one, and how small one's social circle really is, any marriage at all seems a miracle. -Barry Pain"
18,"My marriage was the most fortunate and joyous event which happened to me in the whole of my life. -Sir Winston Churchill"
19,"Woman accepts man for the sake of matrimony and man accepts matrimony for the sake of woman. -Gregory Mason"
20,"A perfect marriage is a hearth and a horizon. -Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco"
21,"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. -Rev. Joseph Barth"
22,"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks; it tolls the hour...The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals; they symbolize the human race. -Ann Morrow Lindbergh"
23,"When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her--but, alas, she was waiting for the perfect man. -Robert Schuman"
24,"The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted. -Heywood Broun"
25,"Rarely are marriages wrecked on a big rock of adversity. It is on the smaller pebbles that they founder. -Velora Buscher"
26,"Nothing makes a man and wife feel closer, these days, than a joint tax return. -Gil Stern"
27,"Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence. -Eddie Cantor"
28,"Marriage itself is not solely an institution for the propagation of children, but is also for the fruition of that richer fellowship God intended when he saw that it was not good for man to live alone. -George Hockman"
29,"One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. -M.M. Musselman"
30,"Any married man should forget his mistakes--no use two people remembering the same thing. -Duane Dewel"
31,"In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care. -André Maurois"
32,"A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. -André Maurois"
33,"Marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. -André Maurois"
34,"Marriage is a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it. There was never a marriage that could not be made a success, nor a marriage that could not have ended in bitterness and failure. -Kathleen Norris"
35,"If all of one's married days are as happy as these new ones have been to me, I have deliberately fooled away 30 years of my life. If I were to do it over again I would marry in early infancy instead of wasting time cutting teeth and breaking crockery. -Mark Twain"
36,"Marriage probably has the poorest public relations of any institution in the world, but its business is only slightly short of spectacular. -Douglas Meador"
37,"I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe--it's not safe at all. -Jean Kerr"
38,"Marrying...is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. -Jean Kerr"
39,"A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny rowboat; if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it; otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. -Dr. David R. Reuben"
40,"The secret of happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends. -R. Quillen"
41,"The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor. -E.V. Lucas"
