Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.

Ambrose Bierce

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

H.L. Mencken

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience

Oscar Wilde

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence

H.L. Mencken

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

Marriages are made in heaven. But, again, so are thunder, lightning, tornados and hail

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

Car Manufacturer's formula for a successful marriage : Stick to one model!

If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

Thomas Hardy

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Gloria Steinem

One advantage of marriage It seems to me Is that when you fall out of love with him Or he falls out of love with you It keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

Marriage is like a pair of shears Oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them.

Sydney Smith

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Jefferson Machamer