Subject: Marriage (Page 28)

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

(1888 – 1982) American writer

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

You know the honeymoon's over when your dog brings your slippers, and your wife barks at you!

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

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

(1914 – 1953) Welsh-born poet & writer

Marriage is like a bank account: you put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

(1914 – ) American comic & actor

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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

They have come up with a perfect understanding; he won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.

The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

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

Marriage: A  relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed… I leave.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I am so against [gay marriage] because all my gay friends are out and if they get married, it will cost a fortune in gifts.

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

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

(1788 – 1824) English poet

Marriages are made in heaven, maybe that’s why so many atheists fool around.

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

American comedian

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

(1885 – 1957) French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter & playwright

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

I’d like to marry a nice domesticated homosexual with a fetish for wiping down Formica and different vacuum-cleaner attachments.

(1960 – ) English comedian, novelist & actress

A husband always prefers his wife’s mother-in-law to his own.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

You’re supposed to spend two months worth of salary on an engagement ring, so when I get engaged, some lucky lady will receive a piece of Life Savers candy.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer