Subject: Marriage (Page 3)

My husband could have had any women he pleased – he just couldn't please any!

It's better to have loved and lost, then have to live with that bitch for the rest of my life.

comedian

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I don't care if she doesn't know how to cook – so long as she doesn't know a good lawyer.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor

When a husband brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.

Marian Jordan (1898 – 1961) American radio comedian (of Fibber McGee & Molly)

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

(1898 – 1981) actor, singer, songwriter & movie producer

Presidents don’t do it to their wives; they do it to their country.

(1926 – ) film director, screenwriter, composer, comedian, actor & producer

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

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

(1958 – ) screenwriter, film director & actor

Marry an outdoors woman; then if you throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Husband: One who stands by you in troubles you wouldn’t have had if you hadn’t married him.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

If you go to any book store and look at any book on marriage, you'll see at least one photo of me about to put an ice tray with only one ice cube left in it back into the refrigerator.

(1955 – ) American actor, stand-up comedian & impressionist

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it’s around the woman’s neck.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

This coat I’m wearing is a present from my wife; I came home early one night and there it was, hanging over a chair.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

Well I don’t see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy.


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.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.