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Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by KunleOshob(m): 11:23am On Apr 22, 2009
Sacha Guitry
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Socrates
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.

Anonymous
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

Dumas
The great question,  which I have not been able to answer,  is, "What does a woman want?

Sigmund Freud
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

Anonymous
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."

Sam Kinison
"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."

James Holt McGavran
"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."

Patrick Murray
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once, 

Anonymous
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

Henny Youngman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years,  Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

Anonymous
First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
Re: Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by bomakris(f): 2:19pm On Apr 22, 2009
Marriage is not a baby thing and is once in a life.

To make marriage work both party have to determine to be happy together no matter the storm and the waves that comes up.
Re: Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by Nobody: 9:18am On Apr 23, 2009
here are a few more:

“Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts”
-Jeff Foxworthy

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
-Groucho Marx

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.” -Lyndon B. Johnson

"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't.” -Unknown

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
-Rodney Dangerfield

“Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.” -Minnie Pearl

"Behind every great man there is a surprised woman."
-Maryon Pearson

“They say love is blind, and marriage is an institution. Well, I'm not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.” -Mae West

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.” -H.L. Mencken

"A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished."
-Zsa Zsa Gabor

“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.” -H.L. Mencken

“A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.” -Grace Hansen

“My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.” -Armistead Maupin

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

“I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.” -Lewis Grizzard

“The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” -Bertrand Russell

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted"
-Helen Rowland

"Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give." -Cass Daley

“Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.” -Elbert Hubbard

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." -Groucho Marx

*“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
-Henny Youngman

“When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.” -Prince Philip

"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid." -Dorothy Parker

“When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.” -Helen Rowland

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war." -G. K. Chesterton

"A husband's last words should always be, OK buy it." -Unknown

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." -Jimmy Durante

“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 is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.” -Evelyn Hendrickson

“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

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

“My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a LovePeddler in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.”
-Jerry Hall

"I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night." -Marie Corelli

“Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.” -Billy Connolly

“Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.” -Arthur Baer

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” -Barbra Streisand

“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.” - Rita Rudner

“Car Manufacturer's formula for a successful marriage : Stick to one model!” - Unknown

"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway." -Joey Adams

"What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.”
-Mignon McLaughlin

“Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.” -Unknown

“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.” -Bettina Arndt

“Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.” -Helen Rowland

“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” -Henny Youngman

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” -Katharine Hepburn

“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.” -Robert Frost

"The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him." -Oscar Wilde

"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late." -Max Kauffmann
Re: Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by KunleOshob(m): 11:21am On Apr 23, 2009
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Re: Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by biina: 1:09pm On Apr 23, 2009
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight

Someone 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 and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

My husband and I have never considered divorce, murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.
Re: Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by biina: 1:09pm On Apr 23, 2009
@kunle
Pls reduce the line spacing in the OP
Re: Great Thoughts By Great Men About Marriage by KunleOshob(m): 1:33pm On Apr 23, 2009
biina:

@kunle
Pls reduce the line spacing in the OP

Done wink

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