On Marriage
Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. -- Colley Cibber
Marriage isn’t a word—it’s a sentence. -- King Vidor
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll go to sleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Rowland
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. -- Helen Rowland
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
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. -- James Cabell
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. -- Bertrand Russell
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure. -- Herbert Samuel
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what’s sensible and what’s foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. -- Willa Cather
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries. -- "Wayne" (in Wayne's World)
The marriage didn’t work out but the separation is great. -- Liz Smith
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. -- William Shakespeare
From Jodie: If kisses were all the joy in bed, one woman would another wed. -- Unknown
From Kat L: They say love is blind. When you get married, you open your eyes and realise you're living with a pig...all they do is eat, sleep and grunt. -- Kat L.
From Angel: A bride and a groom at the altar have only one thing in common: they both love him the most. -- Unknown
From Jennifer F: The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him! -- Cher
From Jennifer F: An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie
From AnneArkay: I'd rather have a close friend who lives close by. -- Katherine Hepburn
From Rivka: I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -- Gloria Steinem
From Rivka: 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 that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night. -- Marie Corelli
From Miss Independant: People ask me why I don't want to get married and I simply respond ' What's in it for me?
From Nlm, CA: The old theory was, Marry an older man, because they're more mature. But the new theory is, Men don't mature. Marry a younger one. - Rita Rudner
From Theresa, MA: We always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it. - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
From Rachel Garcia, TX: Why do men care so much before marriage but never give a fuck after?
From Kristi & Amanda, TX: Lose 180 pounds...Divorce your spouse!
On Sex
I know nothing about sex because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. -- Norman Mailer
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. -- Mason Cooley
I’ve tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. -- Talullah Bankhead
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. -- Andy Warhol
In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling. -- William Burroughs
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. -- Joan Rivers
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. -- George Burns
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency. -- Bette Davis
Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond. -- W.H. Auden
From Miranda Lee: If you can't be with the one you love, just fuck the man you're with. -- Unknown
From Rhonda: Men who say a woman's vagina is "loose" is really just feeling his own insecurities about the girth and proportion of his own manhood -- Rhonda
From Jen S: Why would a guy want two girls if he can't satisfy the first one? -- Jen S.
From Jen S: Women can get better results from a water fountain than you. -- Jen S.
From Saharyakhi: Since when did having a penis mean ‘All access pass into my pussy? -- Saharyakhi
From Saharyakhi: Just because I’m not a virgin doesn’t mean we're fucking!! As a matter of fact, because I am not a virgin is the reason we will not be fucking, I found out it's all a myth!! -- Saharyakhi
From Little Bear, Canada: Pregnacy. I hear it's amazing. To me, the biggest difference between men and women is the ability to give birth and have another live inside of you. That's a pretty far-out thing. So I would like to know what it would be like to be pregnant. Maybe during the third trimester--why not? Make it toward the end when I'm having a hard time walking, you know, and let me see what the real deal is! -- Jason Biggs
From Brenda, GA: The only way that you'll ever get any of 'this pussy', is to lick it from the shaft of another man!
From Becky, PA: Why is that a guy can have sex with everything that crosses their path and it's ok, but if a girl does that she is considered a slut?
From Valerie Martin, AZ: If you go to bed with dogs, the only thing you end up with is flees.
From Calichika: All the guys say, 'Suck it.' and we should say, 'Sorry, we choke on small objects.'
From Shany mc: Just a note ladies. Who came up with the term 'Love Handles' anyway? A man no doubt. It's not like saddlebags were ever called 'Honey Handles'. I submit to you all a new term; "Bitch Clutch" for all the fat men out there who think they deserve love.
From Erin, FL: Women may fake orgasms but men fake entire relationships. -- Unknown
From Jess, NE: Anchorotize: Staying celibate to conserve your sexual energy. I'm not a loser, I'm anchorotizing. - Anita Liberty in"How to Heal the Hurt by Hating."
On Lying & Cheating
Lord, Lord, how subject we men are to this vice of lying! -- William Shakespeare
She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity—and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the “woman of wax” whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death. --Marguerite Dumas
He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself. He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away. -- The Bible
From Mintt, VI: Love 'em, trust 'em, and when you catch 'em in the act, fuck 'em.
On Divorce and Breaking Up
Better a tooth out than always aching. -- Thomas Fuller
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. -- Ellen Burstyn
When another girl steals your guy, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him. -- Unknown
What I'm doing in this car flying down these screaming highways is getting my tail to Juarez so I can legally rid myself of the crummy son-of-a-bitch who promised me a tomorrow like a yummy fruitcake and delivered instead wilted lettuce, rotted cucumber, and a garbage of a life. -- Anne Richardson Rolphe
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandberg
Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. -- Robin Williams
Don't you mess with me, mister, or I'll divorce you so fast it'll make your head spin! -- "Carolyn" (in American Beauty)
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. -- Mary Kay Blakely
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you. -- Margaret Atwood
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce. -- Mason Cooley
From Casey H: Why does a divorce cost so much? Because its worth it! -- Unknown
From Michelle: All I have to do is remind myself of the mercy, understanding, patience, effort, support, appreciation, and love you failed to give. This will give me the strength and knowledge to move on away from you and live again. NEVER SETTLE. -- Michelle
From Tameheart1: Ex-lovers and spouses can't deal with a woman having a real man for a best friend. -- Tameheart1
From Rivka: Laugh and the world laughs with you. > Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. -- Laurie Kuslansky
From Rivka: I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor