Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
The homegrown tomato is best (in reference to choosing a marriage partner).
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
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.
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.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.