Subject: Marriage (Page 13)

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce; we decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Many a man's lost his best friend by marrying her.

(1908 – 2003) American actor & dancer

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women; it's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

One man's folly is another man's wife.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

My fiancé and I are having a little disagreement; what I want is a big church wedding with bridesmaids and flowers and a no-expense-spared reception; what he wants is to break off our engagement.


Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window; you may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

(1922 – 2003) author & playwright

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.


I’ve had bad luck with both my wives; the first one left me and the second one didn’t.

(1956 – ) English actor

My boyfriend and I broke up; he wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

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

It's like my ex-wife… 21 different personalities and seven of them hated me.

American football coach

One time I went to a hotel; I asked the bellhop to handle my bag; he felt up my wife!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

(1958 – ) screenwriter, film director & actor