Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

17.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

20.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

21.

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.

Corelli, Marie

22.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

23.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

24.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

25.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

26.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

27.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

28.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

30.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

32.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

33.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

34.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

35.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

37.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

38.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

40.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.