“ Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
~ Oscar Wilde”
“ I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
~ Mahatma Gandhi”
“ Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
~ George Bernard Shaw”
“ My advice to you is get married, if you find a good wife you'll be happy, if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~ George Bernard Shaw”
“ Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw”
“ A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor”
“ A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
~ William Somerset Maugham”
“ Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
~ Washington Irving”
“ However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
~ Virgilia Peterson”
“ She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
~ Tommy Manville”
“ Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
~ Sydney Smith”