Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. (Quote by - William Congreve)

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping. (Quote by - Mignon Mclaughlin)

Never strike your wife - even with a flower. (Quote by - Hindu Proverb)

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. (Quote by - Mae West)

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. (Quote by - Marie Corelli)

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up (Quote by - Joseph Barth)

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. (Quote by - Alan King)

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Quote by - Socrates)

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)

Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. (Quote by - George Eliot)

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. (Quote by - Doug Larson)

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. (Quote by - Arthur Baer)

Love just doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Quote by - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)