Marriages are the most respected union of all, or at least they should be. It takes a lot of courage, love and commitment to make any marriage work, but lets not forget a little bit humor can do no harm, in fact it might do the couple a lot of good to laugh a little bit. So here are a few funny quotes about life and marriage.

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too.”

- H.L. Mencken

“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 in the house.”

- Jean Kerr

“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”

- Rita Rudner

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

- Rita Rudner

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”

- Sacha Guitry

The unfortunate thing about funny quotes about living life when it comes to partnership and marriage is that most of them seem to be on the negative side. Perhaps this is the way things should be, after all you can have a laugh by being sweet and sentimental… can you?

“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

“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

“In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues.”

- Helen Rowland

“Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?”

- Carrie Snow

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.”

- George Burns