Subject: Marriage (Page 27)

Don’t over-analyze your marriage; it’s like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

My wife and I took out life insurance policies on each other – so now it’s just a waiting game.

(1962 – ) American stand-up comedian & game show host

My wife and I had words – but I never got to use mine.

Monogamy leaves a lot to be desired.

Will you take this woman to be your awful wedded wife?

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer

Marriage is like having cable with one channel.

(Nathaniel Stroman) (1963 – ) American actor, voice artist & comedian

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

Alimony: The screwing you get for the screwing you got.

Barbara and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary yesterday… we are very happy, but I would be happier if she got a job!

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

A punctual husband is a lonely man.

cartoon character in The Lockhorns by (Bunny Hoest & John Reiner)

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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


Lately, I think that my wife has been fooling around because our parrot keeps saying, ‘Give it to me hard and fast before my husband, Jon Katz, comes home; and, yes, I’d love a cracker.’

(1946 – ) American comedian, actor & voice actor

The gifts you buy your wife are never as appropriate as the gifts your neighbor buys his wife.

Once in a restaurant I made a toast to her… “The best woman a man ever had”… the waiter joined me.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.

How it Works: The Husband

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

(1850 – 1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist & travel writer