Subject: Marriage (Page 12)

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Marriage: The mourning after the knot before.

At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?'… 'Oh, honey – that's up to Mommy, isn't it?'

(1964 – ) American comedian & actor

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Most wives are like ventriloquists: they stand there nodding while the dummy does all the talking.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Marriage is bliss… Ignorance is bliss… Ergo…

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

If it weren’t for marriage, husband and wives would have to fight with strangers.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

I don’t worry about terrorism… I was married for two years.

(1953 – 1992) American comedian

If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

My parents got divorced after 40 years… that's the longest game of chicken ever.

American comedian

Optimist: The sort of man who marries his sister’s best friend.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

‘I am’ is the shortest sentence in the English Language; ‘I do’ is the longest.

Politicians are wedded to the truth, but like many other married couples they sometimes live apart.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

(1931 – ) American author & newspaper journalist

Hovering between wife and death.

(1771 – 1854) Scottish writer

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred.

Half of all marriage end in divorce – and then there are the unhappy ones.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director