The Bittersweetness of Marriage

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

——Mae West

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

——H. L. Mencken

Marriage—a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

——Beverley Nichols

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

——Minnie Pearl

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

——G. K. Chesterton

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

——Socrates

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

——Henny Youngman

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

——Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

——Joan Crawford

I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

——Angelina Jolie

調侃婚姻

譯/向夢

除了貧窮和牙痛之外，愛情征服一切。

——梅·韋斯特

單身漢比已婚男人更了解女性；如果他們不了解，他們也會結婚。

——亨利·路易斯·門肯

婚姻的第一章是用詩歌寫成的，其余的章節用散文寫成。

——貝佛利·尼克爾斯

婚姻就像洗熱水澡，一旦你習慣了，就不那么熱了。

——明妮·珀爾

婚姻是一種冒險，就像開戰一樣。

——切特斯頓

我給你的建議是結婚：如果你找到一個好妻子，你會很幸福；否則，你將成為一名哲學家。

——蘇格拉底

有些人問我婚姻長久的奧秘。我們每周都要去兩次餐廳，那里有燭光晚餐、輕柔的音樂，我們隨之起舞。她周二去，我周五去。

——亨尼·楊曼

只是因為你不愛一個男人而離婚，幾乎和只是因為你愛一個男人而結婚一樣愚蠢。

在你和他離婚之前，你不了解男人。

——莎莎·嘉寶

愛是火。但它是會溫暖你的壁爐，還是燒毀你的房子，你也許永遠說不清楚。

——瓊·克勞馥

我們相愛不是因為找到完美的人，而是學會完美地看待一個不完美的人。

——安吉麗娜·朱莉