1. "Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. "
   -- Anonymous

2. "All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. "
   -- Anonymous

3. "Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that."--
   Anonymous

4. "It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. "
   -- Anonymous

5. "Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. "
   -- Anonymous

6. "Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success."--
   Jim Backus

7. "Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. "
   -- Amy Bloom

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

9. "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. "
   -- Barbara Bush

10. "All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."--
    Lord Byron

11. "If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. "
    -- Johnny Carson

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

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

14. "The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. "
    -- S. T. Coleridge

15. "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

16. "I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. "
    -- Bette Davis

17. "Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. "
    -- Madame de Rieux

18. "Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."--
    Phyllis Diller

19. "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."--
    Clint Eastwood

20. "Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed."--
    Albert Einstein

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

22. "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. "
    -- Benjamin Franklin

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

24. "I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. "
    -- Zsa Zsa Gabor

25. "I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. "
    -- Lewis Grizzard

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

27. "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. "
    -- Jean Kerr

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

29. "Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. "
    -- Groucho Marx

30. "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. "
    -- Jackie Mason

31. "Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. "
    -- Langdon Mitchell

32. "A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. "
    -- Nanette Newman

33. "When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? "
    -- Friedrich Nietzsche

34. "Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. "
    -- Helen Roland

35. "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."--
    Socrates

36. "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "
    -- Gloria Steinem

37. "I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. "
    -- Gloria Steinem

38. "Loves seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. "
    -- Mark Twain

39. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. "
    -- Mae West

40. "Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed."
    -- Oscar Wilde

Danielle Hollister

Danielle Hollister is a single mom of a seven year-old son, who is her personal assistant in their home office, where she has been working as a freelance writer, editor and researcher for more than 10 years. Danielle?s work has been featured in online newsletters, like Briefme.com's Books & Literature ezine, on various websites, and in print publications. Before expanding her career focus to the Internet, she worked for more than three years as a freelance reporter for The Patriot-News, the only daily newspaper in her hometown of Harrisburg, which is the Capitol of Pennsylvania. She also spent two years as the assistant writer to the Director of Public Relations at Penn State Harrisburg, after graduating with high honors from the University with a Bachelor's Degree in Humanitites/Communications. While in college, she worked part-time to pay for her education as a Special Events Coordinator for the Central PA Chapter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and as an Editorial Assistant for Stackpole Publishing in Harrisburg.