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Marriage, n.  A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

I love being married.  It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.  ~Rita Rudner 

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.  ~George Bernard Shaw 

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.  ~Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.  ~Anne Taylor Fleming

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.  ~Doug Larson

Divorce:  The past tense of marriage.  ~Author Unknown

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.  ~Judith Viorst

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.  Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.  ~Katherine Hepburn

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.  ~Menander

If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.  ~W. Somerset Maugham

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.  The order varies for any given year.  ~Paul Sweeney

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.  ~Beverley Nichols

Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.  ~Author Unknown

All marriages are happy.  It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.  ~Raymond Hull

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel:  expensive, but worth it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.  ~Gene Perret

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married.  And by then it was too late.  ~Max Kauffman

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.  ~James C. Dobson

Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence.  ~Author Unknown

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