英语名人名言:婚姻Marriage(Negative)

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All marriages are happy. Its living together afterwards that is difficult.

　　—— Anonymous

　　He believes that marriage and a career dont mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Its not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. Shes not marrying the best man.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is a three ring circus： engagement ring， wedding ring， and suffering.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo……

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it， its not so hot.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over， you still have the strings.

　　—— Anonymous

　　Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

　　—— Anonymous

　　It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

　　—— Jane Austen

　　Marriage is low down， but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

　　—— Baskins

　　The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

　　—— Ambrose Bierce

　　MARRIAGE， n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master， a mistress and two slaves， making in all， two.

　　—— Ambrose Bierce， The Devils Dictionary， 1911

　　In the blithe days of honeymoon，

　　With Kates allurements smitten，

　　I lovd her late， I lovd her soon，

　　And calld her dearest kitten.

　　But now my kittens grown a cat，

　　And cross like other wives.

　　O！ By my soul my honest Mat，

　　I fear she has nine lives.

　　—— James Boswell， Life of Johnson

　　Insurance is like marriage. You pay， pay， pay， and you never get anything back.

　　—— Al Bundy， character on “Married with Children，” U.S. television show

　　Nothing says lovin like marrying your cousin！

　　—— Al Bundy， character on “Married with Children，” U.S. television show

　　I hate work. Thats why I got married.

　　—— Peg Bundy， character on “Married with Children，” U.S. television show

　　In matrimony， to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

　　—— Samuel Butler

　　If variety is the spice of life， marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

　　—— Johnny Carson

　　If you are afraid of loneliness， dont marry.

　　—— Chekhov

　　Marriage is an adventure， like going to war.

　　—— G. K. Chesterton

　　The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

　　—— S. T. Coleridge

　　Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in， you take it out， you lose interest.

　　—— Irwin Corey

　　Ive sometimes thought of marrying， and then Ive thought again.

　　—— Noel Coward

　　Marriage is a matter of give and take， but so far I havent been able to find anybody wholl take what I have to give.

　　—— Cass Daley

　　Id marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee hed be dead within a year.

　　—— Bette Davis

　　Keep your eyes wide open before marriage， and half shut afterwards.

　　—— Benjamin Franklin

　　Where there is marriage without love， there will be love without marriage.

　　—— Benjamin Franklin

　　Love is the dawn of marriage， and marriage is the sunset of love.

　　—— French saying

　　A man is incomplete until he is married. After that， he is finished.

　　—— Zsa Zsa Gabor

　　Im an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce， I keep the house.

　　—— Zsa Zsa Gabor

　　Love is an ideal thing， marriage a real thing； a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

　　—— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

　　Thank heaven. A bachelors life is no life for a single man.

　　—— Samuel Goldwyn， immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer， when told his son was getting married

　　Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

　　—— James Graham

　　I dont think Ill get married again. Ill just find a woman I dont like and give her a house.

　　—— Lewis Grizzard

　　Marriage is a great institution， but who wants to live in an institution？

　　—— Marx Groucho， the film “Animal Crackers”

　　If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one， go ahead， get married.

　　—— Katharine Hepburn

　　Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

　　—— Oliver Herford

　　Wedding is destiny， and hanging likewise.

　　—— John Heywood

　　It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand； but， by the beauty of our law， what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off！

　　—— Douglas Jerold， 1858

　　Marriage has many pains， but celibacy has no pleasures.

　　—— Samuel Johnson

　　I dont worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

　　—— Sam Kinison

　　Marriage is a lottery， but you cant tear up your ticket if you lose.

　　—— F. M. Knowles

　　Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

　　—— Stephen Leacock

　　I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying， and for this reason， I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

　　—— Abraham Lincoln， in a letter to Mrs. O.H. Browning， April 1， 1838

　　I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married， they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

　　—— Dick Martin

　　I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

　　—— Groucho Marx

　　Politics doesnt make strange bedfellows， marriage does.

　　—— Groucho Marx

　　Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

　　—— Jackie Mason

　　Theres a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. Its called marriage.

　　—— James Holt McGavran

　　Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pretty yoke， it becomes us to be grateful.

　　—— Phyllis McGinley