Marriage Maxims (page 2 of 3)

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Braggarts and Batteries

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


I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
-- Candice Bergen


Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.
-- Jackie Gleason


For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have his and her own bathroom. The end.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin


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.
-- Sydney J. Harris


A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Honoré de Balzac


If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson


Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-- Erma Bombeck


If men knew how women pass time when they're alone, they'd never marry.
-- O. Henry


It seemed to me that the desire to get married -- which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women -- is followed almost immediately by an equally basic an primal urge -- which is to be single again.
-- Nora Ephron


I married beneath me, all women do.
-- Nancy Astor


My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-- Muhammad Ali


All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
-- Red Skelton


Half a loafer is better than no husband at all.
-- Louis Safian


An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie


Husbands are like fires -- they go out when unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor


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