A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
시각장애 아내와 청각장애 남편(a blind wife and a deaf husband) 사이의 결혼이 가장 원만하다.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
정신과 의사(a psychiatrist)는 당신 아내가 아무 것도 안 받고 물어보는(ask for nothing) 것들을 많은 값비싼 질문들로 물어본다(ask a lot of expensive questions).
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
성공적인 결혼(a successful marriage)은늘 같은 사람과몇번이고 다시 사랑에 빠지는(fall in love many times, always with the same person) 것을 필요로 한다.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
결혼기념일(a wedding anniversary)은 사랑, 믿음, 동반자 관계, 관용, 끈기의 축하행사(the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity)이다. 순서는어느 해라도 바뀔 수 있지만(can vary for any given year)말이다.
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
Grace Hansen
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
모든 남자들이 실수를 한다(make mistakes). 그러나 결혼한 남자들은 더 빨리 실수에 대해 알게 된다(find out about them sooner).
Red Skelton
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
Sacha Guitry
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H. L. Mencken
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We’re like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
Barbara Mandrell
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something.
Will Cuppy
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
Loretta Lynn
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
Henny Youngman
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
당신이 함께 살 수 있을 것 같다고 생각하는 사람(the person you think you can live with)과 결혼하지 마라. 없으면 못살 것 같다고 생각하는 사람(individual you think you can’t live without)과 결혼해라.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor
He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
I don’t think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
Frank Carson
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Reese Witherspoon
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
Lee Grant
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Rose Kennedy
I’ve had two proposals since I’ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
Ruth Rendell
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
George Ade
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
사랑과 결혼에 대해 읽고 싶으면(want to read about love and marriage) 각각 다른 두 권의 책을 사야(buy two separate books) 한다.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
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
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Euripides
It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.
결혼생활을 유지한다는(stay married) 것은 참으로 힘든 일이다.내 아내는 개에게는는 입술로 키스를 해주면서(kiss the dog on the lips) 물이든 술이든 내가 마신 잔으로는 마시지 않으려(won’t drink from my glass) 한다.
Rodney Dangerfield
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
사랑이란 결혼으로 치유될 수 있는 일시적 정신이상(a temporary insanity curable by marriage) 현상이다.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
보조개와 사랑에 빠진 많은 남자들(many a man in love with a dimple)이 그 여자 전체와 결혼하는 실수를 저지른다(make the mistake of marrying the whole girl).
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
결혼이란 제1장은 시(詩)로 쓰여지고(be written in poetry) 나머지 장들은 산문(散文)으로 쓰여지는(the remaining chapters in prose) 책과 같다.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
Linda Fiorentino
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
Yoko Ono
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
Mae West
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
결혼은 전쟁터로 나가는 것과 같은 모험(an adventure, like going to war)이다.
전쟁터에 나가라거나결혼 하라는 충고는 누구에게도 절대 하지 마라(Never advise any one to go to war or to marry).
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
Frances Conroy
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
결혼은 큰 가위 하나와 비슷하다(resemble a pair of shears). 분리될 수 없게 돼 있으면서(cannot be separated) 자주 서로 다른 방향으로 움직이지만(often move in opposite directions) 그들 사이에 들어오는 사람은 누구든 처벌을 가한다(punish anyone who comes between them).
Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
결혼은 들어가는 것 외에는 그 어느 것도 공짜가 아닌 시장(a market which has nothing free but the entrance)과 같다.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
결혼을 뜻하는 marriage는 "신기루"라는 뜻의 mirage로 발음돼야 한다(should be pronounced "mirage".
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
Melissa Bean
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
Patrice Leconte
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
내 충고는 결혼을 하라는(get married) 것이다. 좋은 아내를 만나면(if you find a good wife) 행복할 것이요, 그렇지 못하면 철학자가 될 것이기(if not, you’ll become a philosopher) 때문이다.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
당신 아내에 대해 생각했던 것에 양심의 가책을 느끼지 마라(never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife).당신 아내는 당신에 대해 훨씬 더 나쁜것들을 생각해왔다(have thought much worse things about you).
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
Never get married in the morning – you never know who you might meet that night.
아침에결혼하지 마라(Never get married in the morning). 그날 밤에 어느 누구를 만날지알 수 없기(never know who you might meet that night) 때문이다.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
Edgar Watson Howe
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Robert Burton
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
John Boehner
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes
She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
Henny Youngman
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O’Rourke
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
John Gay
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A. P. Herbert
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Colin Chapman
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine
There is a time for all things – except marriage, my dear.
Thomas Chatterton
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
Steven Curtis Chapman
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
결혼을 잘 한 사람은 날개를 달고(get wings), 잘못한 사람은 족쇄를 차게 된다(have shackles).
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
남자가 아내에게 차문을 열어주는(open a car door for his wife) 경우는 차가 새 차이거나 아내가 새 아내일(be either a new car or a new wife) 때뿐이다.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
Helen Gahagan
When I get married, it’ll be no secret.
Elvis Presley
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Marie Osmond
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
Gary Becker