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Quotes on Marriage
Discoveries, Vol. 1, #2.
Quotes
Quotes on Marriage
Discoveries, Vol. 1, #2.
Quotes
- One woman to another at the office, "Did you wake up grouchy today?" "No, I just let him sleep in."
- There is only one thing harder than living alone, and that is to live with another person. - Ingrid Trobisch
- Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. - Helen Rowland.
- Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. - A. Lincoln
- There are two kinds of people at parties&md;those who want to go home early and those who want to be the last ones in the place. The trouble is that they're usually married to each other.
- Parson's Rule: At whatever stage you apologize to your spouse, the reply is constant: "It's too late now."
- A good marriage is the union of two forgivers. - Ruth Bell Graham
- Marriage should be a duet&md;when one sings, the other claps. - Joe Murray, Cox News Service
- Before you marry, keep your two eyes open; after you marry, shut one. - Jamaican proverb
- The German poet Heinrich Heine bequeathed his entire estate to his widow on the condition she remarry&md;"So at least one other man will regret my death."
- Even if marriages are made in heaven, man has to be responsible for the maintenance. - John Graham in Alma, GA, Times
- Don't buy the house; buy the neighbor. - Russian Proverb (Don't marry the woman [only] but the family.)
- Marriage is a journey toward an unknown destination&md;the discovery that people must share not only what they don't know about each other, but what they don't know about themselves. - Michael Ventura
- "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her," said mystery author Agatha Christie, who was married to one.
- What is the recipe for honeymoon salad? Lettuce alone without dressing. - The Bell, the Clapper, and the Cord: Wit and Witticism, (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, 1994), p. 11.
- Marriage is when you agree to spend the rest of your life sleeping in a room that's too warm, beside someone who's sleeping in a room that's too cold. - Contributed by E. J. Graff
- Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. - Helen Rowland, quoted by Robert Keeler in The Toastmaster, Reader's Digest, June, 1994, p. 130
- Overheard: "Marriage is nature's way of keeping people from fighting with strangers." - Alan King
- In colonial days, a Boston sea captain named Kemble was sentenced to spend two hours in the stocks for kissing his wife in public on Sunday, the day he returned from three years at sea.
- Abigail Van Buren says at the top of her list of the ten most common problems she sees in "Dear Abby" letters is: "My wife doesn't understand me."
- The "Four D's of marriage" according to author Fay Angus, are "depression, despair, drink and divorce." - Fay Angus
- You may win the argument, but if there's blood on the floor, you lose anyway. - Anon
- If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag. - Zig Ziglar
- Commuter to seatmate: "Actually, my mother-in-law and I have a lot in common. We both wish my wife had married someone else." - H. Bosch in National Enquirer
- Barr's comment on domestic tranquillity (Donald Barr), "On a beautiful day like today, it's hard to believe anyone can be unhappy, but we'll work on it. - From The Official Rules
- It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only 2 people miserable instead of 4. - Samuel Butler, of Thomas Carlyle, in the Book of Insults, Ancient and Modern, by Nancy McPhee
- Many girls marry men just like their fathers, which may explain why many mothers cry at weddings.
- There is only one thing harder than living alone, and that is to live with another person. - Ingrid Trobisch
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