"A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal."
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"When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience."
"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."
"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
"Love is no assignment for cowards."
"I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting."
"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."
"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
"Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love."
"If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love."
"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
"Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"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."