"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same." - Anonymous

"Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him." - Cher

"Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring." - Colley Cibber

"Marriage is a wonderful invention. But, then again, so is the bicycle repair kit." - Billy Connolly

"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three." - Alexandre Dumas, fils

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband." - Euripides

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness." - Benjamin Franklin

"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence." - Graffiti

"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things." - Heraclitus

"The honeymoon is over when he phones that he'll be late for supper - and she has already left a note that it's in the refrigerator." - Bill Lawrence

"Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all." - Walter Raleigh

"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one." - Helen Rowland

"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever." - Helen Rowland

"Till I have no wife I have nothing." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." - Socrates

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." - Mark Twain

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"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 in the house." - Kerr, Jean

"The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'" - Quillen, Robert quoted in 'A Treasury of the Art of Living'

"Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rilke, R. M. [Rainer Maria]

"After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him." - Rowland, Helen

"The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness." - Seldon, John (1584-1654)

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice

"It is better to marry than to burn." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 7:9

"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy

"Wedlock - the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue." - MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, quoted in Ralph G. Martin's Jennie

"And all the young ladies said . . . that to be sure a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it." - MARIA EDGEWORTH, Castle Rackrent

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas

"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world." - ERICA JONG, Fear of Flying

"There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres

"So they were married
to be the more together
And found they were never again so much together,
Divided by the morning tea,
By the evening paper,
By children and tradesmen's bills."
- LOUIS MACNEICE, Les Sylphides

"Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else." - SAMUEL ROGERS, Table Talk

"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman, The Revolutionist's Handbook

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid." - VOLTAIRE, Penses d'un Philosophe

"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance

"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder." - THORNTON WILDER, The Merchant of Yonkers