1. "Someone once told me that there's always a ghost in every sexual attraction, it's always about someone else: it's never the person, it's always the person you're reminded of."
   
   
2. "Before you meet the handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of toads."
   
   
3. You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.
   
   
4. "A girl becomes a woman when she stops trying to look older than she is."
   
   
5. A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
   
   
6. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
   
   
7. After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
   
8. "Women are often under the impression that men are much in love with them than they really are. One can be much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.... women have never quite understood the attitude that men take up..." (well, men have never done it eithe
   
   
9. Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
   
   
10. Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
    
    
11. Aren't relationships so weird? In theory it sounds like it should be so simple but emotions are just so confusing."
    
    
12. Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
    
    
13. Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
    
    
14. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
    
    
15. Well behaved women rarely make history.
    
    
16. 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.
    
    
17. I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.
    
    
18. There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."
    
    
19. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
    
    
20. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    
21. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    
    
22. Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
    
    
23. The first woman was created from a rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled upon him, but out of his side to be equal to him
    
    
24. Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
    
    
25. The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
    
    
26. After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
    
    
27. It is every guy's dream, to take the most well spoken, intelligent, articulate, savy, well-mannered, quick-witted woman and reduce her to a slobbering, mono-syllabic beastess. We all have that fantasy of having Marie Curie turn to us, toss her hair to one side and say, 'Wear the purple condom lover.'"
    
    
28. I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
    
    
29. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
    
    
30. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!