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Mostly from ''Another Almanac of Words at Play'', by Willard Espy.

+ ''It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else.'' --Rogers

+ ''If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.'' -- Chekhov

+ ''The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.'' -- Coleridge

+ ''Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess.'' -- Dr. Johnson

+ ''If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful.'' -- Haskins

+ ''A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.'' -- Du Bois

+ ''A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.'' -- Moliere

+ ''Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.'' -- Goethe

+ ''In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.'' -- Butler

+ ''A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.'' -- Nietzsche

+ ''Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.'' -- author unknown

+ ''Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.'' -- Dumas

+ ''Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.'' -- Dr. Johnson

+ ''The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, ''What does a woman want?'' -- Freud

+ ''Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.'' -- Shaw

+ ''Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.'' -- Montaigne

+ ''For a male and female to live continuously together is... biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.'' -- Robert Briffault

+ ''Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.'' -- Baskins

+ A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers.

+ A man is not complete until he is married -- then he is finished.

+ Marriage is a rest period between romances.

+ Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.

+ Marriage is a trip between Niagra Falls and Reno.

+ Marriage is an institution --but who wants to live in one?

+ Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of person your spouse would have really preferred.

+ Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

+ Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.