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Love, you can’t start it like a car, you can’t stop it with a gun. – George Bernard Shaw

One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: “Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly.” Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust. – Ruth Smythers, Marriage advice for women, 1894

I’d like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night. – Carrie Snow

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher…and that is a good thing for any man. – Socrates

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. – Herbert Spencer

Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. – Gloria Steinem

If you meet somebody who tells you that he loves you more than anybody in the whole wide world, don’t trust him. It means he experiments. A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth; with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished. – Frank P. Tebbetts

At American weddings, the quality of food is inversely proportional to the social position of the bride and the groom. – Calvin Trillin

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. – Lana Turner

I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. – Tynan

The first time you buy a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time, you look to see if the basement has termites. It’s the same with husbands. – Lupe Valez

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. – Voltaire

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. – Mae West

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. – Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable. – Oscar Wilde

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf