Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Marriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings the other claps.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

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

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Marriage is an adventure like going to war.

Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Marriage 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.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.