Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never say marriage has more joy than pain.

Euripedes Alcestis

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.

Cher

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katherine Hepburn

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripedes Antigone

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest-never viscious or cruel. Good battle is healthy abnd constructive, and brings to a marrriage the principal of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Ogden Nash

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.

Gene Perret

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

Simone Signoret

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

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