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Marriage

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroners inquest. – H. L. Mencken

Ive yet to be on a campus where most women werent worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. Ive yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. – Gloria Steinem

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – were doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. – Rodney Dangerfield

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one Im in. So Im no expert on it. – Hillary Clinton

A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. – Barbara Cartland

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. – P. J. ORourke

After marriage, a womans sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a mans so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. – Helen Rowland

Marriage is give and take. Youd better give it to her or shell take it anyway. – Joey Adams

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the will of the people goes out the window. – Bill Maher

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each others faults. – Richard Armour

Im so wrapped up in my work that its often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. – Jim Carrey

Im most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you dont have that, you really dont have very much. – Bob Newhart

A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

Im also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed. – Alain de Botton

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I dont know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. – Elizabeth Edwards

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage – ever at all. Ive had it. Three times is enough. – Ingrid Bergman

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the others point of view? – William Shatner

I think like any marriage, especially when youve had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work. – Princess Diana

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just dont know, but they do. – Earl Warren

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I dont care if its called marriage. I dont care if its called, you know, domestic partnership. I dont care what its called. – Ellen DeGeneres