On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

22.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

24.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

26.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

27.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

28.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

29.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

31.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

33.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

34.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

35.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

36.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

37.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

38.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

39.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

40.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

44.

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

45.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

46.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

47.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal