What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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. H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. Peter De Vries

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, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Ambrose Bierce

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

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. Author Unknown

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret

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

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. Paul Hornung

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

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. Robert Anderson

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

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller