Marriage: "I still miss my ex-wife, but my aim is getting better." --Rodney Dangerfield My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -- Rodney Dangerfield Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. -- Henny Youngman Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. - Jim Backus I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. - David Bissonette A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. - Lisa Hoffman She's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. - Oscar Levant to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. - Groucho Marx Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. - Jackie Mason Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Montaigne 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...and that is a good thing for any man. - Socrates A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. - Lana Turner Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. - Mae West Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. - ??? Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore ... - Anonymous Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Marriage is a gamble. You start with a pair. He shows a diamond. She shows a heart. Her father has a club. His father has a spade. There's usually a joker around somewhere. On the Honeymoon, he becomes straight and she gets a flush. After a while he becomes a king and she becomes a queen. Soon they end up with a full house. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. In both marriage and a restaurant you order what you want, then when you see what the other folks get, you wish you had ordered that. At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" "Yes, I am," she replied "I married the wrong man." Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his bachelor's degree and the woman gets her master's. A little boy asked his mother, "Mommy," how much does it cost to get married?" And the Mom replied, "I don't know, son, I'm still paying for it." Young Son: Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her? Dad: That happens in most countries, son. Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; and then it was too late. When a newly married woman looks happy we know why. But when a ten-year married woman looks happy - we wonder why. Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen. After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." And the wife replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice it." It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss. A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted." Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine." When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife. A woman was telling her friend, "It is I who made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him." Asked the friend. The woman replied, "A multimillionaire." At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" The other replied "Yes, I am, I married the wrong man."