What is a marriage? Answers vary. Mr. Webster says marriage is a legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. The Bible says marriage is a divine institution for the Lord God made Eve out of the rib of Adam. “And therefore shall a man leave his parents and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:20-24)
The Bible says – what God had joined together let no man put asunder, (Mark 10:9). But divorce and legal separation allow the husband and the wife to part their ways through litigation. Is it any wonder then that Ralph Waldo Emerson asked, “Whom God had put asunder, why should man join together?”
Indeed, there are as many definitions of marriage as there are ways to skin a cat. Some of these come from famous men and women. G.K. Chesterton calls marriage an adventure, like going to war. If you take it from King Vidor, marriage isn’t a word, it’s a sentence. It is a long conversation checkered by disputes, according to Robert Louis Stevenson.
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, according to W. Somerset Maugham. It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married – Robert Frost. Do the husband and the wife make one fool?
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them – Ogden Nash. The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe all other men are just as easy to fool – H.L. Mencken. Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk – Nietzsche.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows, marriage does – Groucho Marx. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage – Francis Bacon. What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; but what they do not do we are told expressly, they neither marry nor are given in marriage – Jonathan Swift.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory – Abraham Lincoln. Here is what took place when Actress Barbara Walters met Actor Robert Mitchum: Walters asked, “You’ve been married forty two years. What makes your marriage work?” Mitchum replied, “Lack of imagination, I suppose.”
Do the man and the woman live happily ever after a marriage? Nope. A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves – Anton Chekhov. The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties – Oscar Wilde. Every man should marry and no man – Benjamin Disraeli.
Marriage is a market that has nothing free but the entrance –Montaigne. “I feel sure that no girl could go to the altar, and would probably refuse, if she knew all…Queen Victoria. The Sphinx-riddle: solve it or be torn to bits is the decree – D. H. Lawrence. It is something like the measles; we all have to go through it – Jerome K. Jerome.
Marriage is like putting one’s hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of getting out an eel – Leonardo Da Vinci. Here is what Bette Davis said after her divorce: “I’d marry again if I found a man who has $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he’d be dead within a year.”
Here is an anecdote that told on George IV of England when he was introduced to his future wife. He kissed her hand, recoiled, and whispered to a bystander: “For God’s sake George, give me a glass of brandy!” Does marriage bring happiness? Nope. A man is love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished – Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Here is another anecdote telling on Dorothy Parker’s remark when she was getting married to Alan Campbell for the second time. “People who haven’t spoken to each other for years are on speaking terms again today – including the bride and the groom.” In our part of the world where monogamy is the rule, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties – Schopenhauer.
Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other – Ian Fleming. “It (marriage) is not silence you can cut with a knife any more, it’s interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage” – E. B. White.
The Bible says – what God had joined together let no man put asunder, (Mark 10:9). But divorce and legal separation allow the husband and the wife to part their ways through litigation. Is it any wonder then that Ralph Waldo Emerson asked, “Whom God had put asunder, why should man join together?”
Indeed, there are as many definitions of marriage as there are ways to skin a cat. Some of these come from famous men and women. G.K. Chesterton calls marriage an adventure, like going to war. If you take it from King Vidor, marriage isn’t a word, it’s a sentence. It is a long conversation checkered by disputes, according to Robert Louis Stevenson.
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, according to W. Somerset Maugham. It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married – Robert Frost. Do the husband and the wife make one fool?
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them – Ogden Nash. The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe all other men are just as easy to fool – H.L. Mencken. Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk – Nietzsche.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows, marriage does – Groucho Marx. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage – Francis Bacon. What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; but what they do not do we are told expressly, they neither marry nor are given in marriage – Jonathan Swift.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory – Abraham Lincoln. Here is what took place when Actress Barbara Walters met Actor Robert Mitchum: Walters asked, “You’ve been married forty two years. What makes your marriage work?” Mitchum replied, “Lack of imagination, I suppose.”
Do the man and the woman live happily ever after a marriage? Nope. A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves – Anton Chekhov. The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties – Oscar Wilde. Every man should marry and no man – Benjamin Disraeli.
Marriage is a market that has nothing free but the entrance –Montaigne. “I feel sure that no girl could go to the altar, and would probably refuse, if she knew all…Queen Victoria. The Sphinx-riddle: solve it or be torn to bits is the decree – D. H. Lawrence. It is something like the measles; we all have to go through it – Jerome K. Jerome.
Marriage is like putting one’s hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of getting out an eel – Leonardo Da Vinci. Here is what Bette Davis said after her divorce: “I’d marry again if I found a man who has $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he’d be dead within a year.”
Here is an anecdote that told on George IV of England when he was introduced to his future wife. He kissed her hand, recoiled, and whispered to a bystander: “For God’s sake George, give me a glass of brandy!” Does marriage bring happiness? Nope. A man is love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished – Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Here is another anecdote telling on Dorothy Parker’s remark when she was getting married to Alan Campbell for the second time. “People who haven’t spoken to each other for years are on speaking terms again today – including the bride and the groom.” In our part of the world where monogamy is the rule, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties – Schopenhauer.
Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other – Ian Fleming. “It (marriage) is not silence you can cut with a knife any more, it’s interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage” – E. B. White.
