| Quote 27 | All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. |
| Quote 35 | A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. |
| Quote 37 | A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. |
| Quote 63 | Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore |
| Quote 65 | As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand th... |
| Quote 66 | Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. |
| Quote 127 | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. |
| Quote 136 | A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. |
| Quote 147 | A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us h... |
| Quote 165 | Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believ... |
| Quote 175 | All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Quote 176 | A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. |
| Quote 177 | Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and... |
| Quote 180 | After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
- Bette Midler |
| Quote 184 | As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. H... |
| Quote 202 | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. |
| Quote 221 | A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. |
| Quote 222 | Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. |
| Quote 239 | The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. |
| Quote 250 | A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. |
| Quote 294 | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep ... |
| Quote 305 | A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. |
| Quote 320 | Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey... |
| Quote 387 | Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw |
| Quote 456 | Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. |
| Quote 520 | Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. |
| Quote 587 | Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. |
| Quote 678 | Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. |
| Quote 829 | Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. |
| Quote 836 | Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. |
| Quote 875 | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
| Quote 907 | Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. |
| Quote 912 | Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. |
| Quote 1065 | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. |
| Quote 1278 | Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. |
| Quote 1515 | Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. |
| Quote 1561 | Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Quote 1978 | As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. |
| Quote 2707 | Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. |
| Quote 2912 | I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. |
| Quote 3152 | Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. |
| Quote 3154 | Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
| Quote 3247 | Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. |
| Quote 3465 | Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. |
| Quote 3779 | When you become senile, you won't know it. |
| Quote 3876 | Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. |
| Quote 3932 | If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. |
| Quote 4166 | I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. |
| Quote 4304 | Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. |
| Quote 7582 | I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. |
| Quote 7621 | Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. |
| Quote 7628 | Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| Quote 7647 | If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot... |
| Quote 7721 | Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. |
| Quote 7781 | One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. |
| Quote 7798 | None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
| Quote 7833 | The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. |
| Quote 7844 | Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. |
| Quote 7861 | Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. |
| Quote 7870 | The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. |
| Quote 7945 | As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. |
| Quote 7997 | To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. |
| Quote 8014 | The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. |
| Quote 8056 | I get all fired up about aging in America.
- Willard Scott |
| Quote 8071 | It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. |
| Quote 8215 | I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. |
| Quote 8266 | Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. |
| Quote 8276 | Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". |
| Quote 8283 | If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. |
| Quote 8310 | Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. |
| Quote 8320 | Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. |
| Quote 8329 | Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. |
| Quote 8395 | I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. |
| Quote 8437 | I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. |
| Quote 8453 | There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. |
| Quote 8472 | He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. |
| Quote 8477 | I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
- Michael Bergin |
| Quote 8489 | It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso |
| Quote 8510 | I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. |
| Quote 8519 | It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot |
| Quote 8542 | Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. |
| Quote 8554 | The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. |
| Quote 8601 | Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? |
| Quote 8617 | No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. |
| Quote 8638 | Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. |
| Quote 8644 | Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. |
| Quote 8649 | In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. |
| Quote 8650 | The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. |
| Quote 8709 | The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel |
| Quote 8711 | Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. |
| Quote 8724 | Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. |
| Quote 8733 | When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. |
| Quote 8737 | After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. |
| Quote 8743 | You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. |
| Quote 8784 | Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. |
| Quote 8814 | Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. |
| Quote 8913 | It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. |
| Quote 8933 | It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. |
| Quote 8968 | Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. |
| Quote 9035 | Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. |
| Quote 9104 | There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. |
| Quote 9150 | There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. |
| Quote 9171 | One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. |
| Quote 9195 | Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. |
| Quote 9209 | One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall... |
| Quote 9247 | You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. |
| Quote 9259 | Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. |
| Quote 9309 | On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be... |
| Quote 9355 | By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not... |
| Quote 9391 | My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. |
| Quote 9405 | Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. |
| Quote 9426 | The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. |
| Quote 9492 | They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. |
| Quote 9541 | I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. |
| Quote 9554 | Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. |
| Quote 9595 | He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. |
| Quote 9617 | I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead with... |
| Quote 9627 | We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. |
| Quote 9657 | I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. |
| Quote 9750 | Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. |
| Quote 9771 | Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. |
| Quote 9796 | When I get married, it'll be no secret.
- Elvis Presley |
| Quote 9805 | Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. |
| Quote 9870 | Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. |
| Quote 9897 | The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. |
| Quote 9910 | I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. |
| Quote 9936 | Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. |
| Quote 10055 | A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. |
| Quote 10070 | But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? |
| Quote 10167 | I'm not afraid of aging.
- Shelley Duvall |
| Quote 10173 | An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. |
| Quote 10183 | Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. |
| Quote 10207 | The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. |
| Quote 10236 | I married beneath me, all women do.
- Nancy Astor |
| Quote 10250 | When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. |
| Quote 10254 | Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. |
| Quote 10264 | Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. |
| Quote 10297 | Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. |
| Quote 10305 | I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. |
| Quote 10333 | If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. |
| Quote 10353 | True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. |
| Quote 10505 | Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. |
| Quote 10514 | I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don&#... |
| Quote 10574 | Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. |
| Quote 10610 | The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. |
| Quote 10632 | I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And sec... |
| Quote 10679 | No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. |
| Quote 10684 | Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. |
| Quote 10712 | The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. |
| Quote 10728 | I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. |
| Quote 10746 | No man is ever old enough to know better.
- Holbrook Jackson |
| Quote 10802 | The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. |
| Quote 10806 | Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. |
| Quote 10840 | Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. |
| Quote 10842 | Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. |
| Quote 11012 | Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It m... |
| Quote 11027 | Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. |
| Quote 11049 | Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. |
| Quote 11078 | Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. |
| Quote 11080 | Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. |
| Quote 11095 | Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas m... |
| Quote 11111 | When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
| Quote 11112 | Age is how we determine how valuable you are. |
| Quote 11148 | Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become fil... |
| Quote 11181 | Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. |
| Quote 11302 | The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose o... |
| Quote 11306 | He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. |
| Quote 11308 | Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. |
| Quote 11313 | To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercis... |
| Quote 11351 | How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. |
| Quote 11372 | In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child... |
| Quote 11473 | Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. |
| Quote 11491 | Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. |
| Quote 11521 | The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. |
| Quote 11550 | Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. |
| Quote 11554 | Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! |
| Quote 11563 | Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
- George Jessel |
| Quote 11618 | It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. |
| Quote 11710 | Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. |
| Quote 11718 | Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. |
| Quote 11735 | Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. |
| Quote 11737 | When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. |
| Quote 11767 | Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. |
| Quote 11838 | Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyo... |
| Quote 11870 | Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis |
| Quote 11897 | It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. |
| Quote 11949 | There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. |
| Quote 11955 | For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it&... |
| Quote 12072 | The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. |
| Quote 12077 | We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see... |
| Quote 12225 | The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. |
| Quote 12247 | I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. |
| Quote 12259 | All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. |
| Quote 12443 | No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. |
| Quote 12470 | 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 ... |
| Quote 12573 | In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. |
| Quote 12593 | Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. |
| Quote 12604 | If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. |
| Quote 12661 | In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. |
| Quote 12671 | Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window op... |
| Quote 12783 | Love is often the fruit of marriage.
- Moliere |
| Quote 12805 | There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. |
| Quote 12990 | Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. |
| Quote 13001 | When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. |
| Quote 13062 | The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov... |
| Quote 13076 | Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brut... |
| Quote 13089 | As men get older, the toys get more expensive. |
| Quote 13119 | Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. |
| Quote 13138 | In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. |
| Quote 13169 | 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 goo... |
| Quote 13186 | The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you do... |
| Quote 13196 | She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. |
| Quote 13201 | Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. |
| Quote 13202 | I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. |
| Quote 13403 | When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everyth... |
| Quote 13412 | We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
- J. B. Priestley |
| Quote 13417 | Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusi... |
| Quote 13418 | Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. |
| Quote 13457 | How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. |
| Quote 13471 | Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. |
| Quote 13510 | Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our lo... |
| Quote 13511 | A man growing old becomes a child again.
- Robert Frost |
| Quote 13558 | Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. |
| Quote 13682 | Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? |
| Quote 13708 | The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. |
| Quote 13710 | While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. |
| Quote 13711 | More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. |
| Quote 13754 | There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear. |
| Quote 13827 | Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. |
| Quote 13851 | Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono |
| Quote 13946 | When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. |
| Quote 13980 | Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfort... |
| Quote 14041 | I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. |
| Quote 14068 | You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. |
| Quote 14071 | Marriage is an exercise in torture.
- Frances Conroy |