Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Marriage is an adventure like going to war.

Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Marriage is a wonderful institution but who wants to live in an institution?

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.

First love is first love first marriage is first marriage disappointment is disappointment.

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.