婚姻Marriage (Negative)[英语名人名言]_名人名言

婚姻Marriage (Negative)[英语名人名言]

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All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

-- Anonymous¹

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

-- Anonymous

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's 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 bliss². 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, it's not so hot.

-- Anonymous

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings³.

-- 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 ravages⁴ 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 Devil's Dictionary, 1911

In the blithe⁵ days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements⁶ smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's 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. That's why I got married.

-- Peg⁷ 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 leftover⁸ Spam.

-- Johnny Carson

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't 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

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

-- Noel Coward

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

-- Cass Daley

I'd 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 he'd 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

I'm an excellent housekeeper⁹. 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 bachelor's 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 don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't 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 Crackers¹⁰"

If you want to sacrifice the admiration¹¹ of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

-- Katharine Hepburn

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity¹² 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 celibacy¹³ has no pleasures.

-- Samuel Johnson

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

-- Sam Kinison

Marriage is a lottery¹⁴, but you can't 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 doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

-- Groucho Marx

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

-- Jackie Mason

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking¹⁵. It's called marriage.

-- James Holt McGavran

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke¹⁶, it becomes us to be grateful.

-- Phyllis McGinley

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

-- Michel de Montaigne

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

-- Ogden Nash

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

-- Cesare Pavese

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else.

-- Rogers

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

-- Will Rogers

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

-- Helen Roland

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.

-- Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

-- Helen Rowland

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

-- Helen Rowland

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry¹⁷.

-- Rita Rudner

To marry is to halve¹⁸ your rights and double your duties.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

-- Scottish Proverb

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.

-- George Bernard Shaw

One cardinal¹⁹ rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly²⁰." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust²¹.

-- Ruth Smythers, Marriage advice for women, 1894

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

-- Herbert Spencer

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

-- Gloria Steinem

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

-- Pauline Thomason

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!

-- Wedding Toast

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

-- Mae West

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

-- Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

-- Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

-- Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

-- Madame de Rieux

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1 anonymous
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。 The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

2 bliss
n.狂喜，福佑，天赐的福
参考例句：
It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。 He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴，因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。

3 strings
n.弦
参考例句：
He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上，随意地拨着吉他的弦。 She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。

4 ravages
劫掠后的残迹，破坏的结果，毁坏后的残迹
参考例句：
the ravages of war 战争造成的灾难 It is hard for anyone to escape from the ravages of time. 任何人都很难逃避时间的摧残。

5 blithe
adj.快乐的，无忧无虑的
参考例句：
Tonight,however,she was even in a blithe mood than usual.但是，今天晚上她比往常还要高兴。 He showed a blithe indifference to her feelings.他显得毫不顾及她的感情。

6 allurements
n.诱惑( allurement的名词复数 )；吸引；诱惑物；有诱惑力的事物
参考例句：
The big cities are full of allurements on which to spend money. 大城市充满形形色色诱人花钱的事物。来自《简明英汉词典》

7 peg
n.木栓，木钉；vt.用木钉钉，用短桩固定
参考例句：
Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。 He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。

8 leftover
n.剩货，残留物，剩饭；adj.残余的
参考例句：
These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。 Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。

9 housekeeper
n.管理家务的主妇，女管家
参考例句：
A spotless stove told us that his mother is a diligent housekeeper.炉子清洁无瑕就表明他母亲是个勤劳的主妇。 She is an economical housekeeper and feeds her family cheaply.她节约持家，一家人吃得很省。

10 crackers
adj.精神错乱的，癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 )；薄脆饼干；（认为）十分愉快的事；迷人的姑娘
参考例句：
That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。 We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。来自《简明英汉词典》

11 admiration
n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕
参考例句：
He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。 We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

12 publicity
n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告
参考例句：
The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。 He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。

13 celibacy
n.独身(主义)
参考例句：
People in some religious orders take a vow of celibacy. 有些宗教修会的人发誓不结婚。 The concept of celibacy carries connotations of asceticism and religious fervor. 修道者的独身观念含有禁欲与宗教热情之意。

14 lottery
n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事
参考例句：
He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。 They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

15 banking
n.银行业，银行学，金融业
参考例句：
John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。 He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。

16 yoke
n.轭；支配；v.给...上轭，连接，使成配偶
参考例句：
An ass and an ox,fastened to the same yoke,were drawing a wagon.驴子和公牛一起套在轭上拉车。 The defeated army passed under the yoke.败军在轭门下通过。

17 jewelry
n.（jewllery）（总称）珠宝
参考例句：
The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。 Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。

18 halve
vt.分成两半，平分；减少到一半
参考例句：
Let's halve the project between our two teams.让我们两个队平均分担这项工程吧。 I'll halve expenses with you.我要跟你平均分摊费用。

19 cardinal
n.(天主教的)红衣主教；adj.首要的，基本的
参考例句：
This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。 The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火，脸涨得通红。

20 grudgingly

参考例句：
He grudgingly acknowledged having made a mistake. 他勉强承认他做错了。来自《简明英汉词典》 Their parents unwillingly [grudgingly] consented to the marriage. 他们的父母无可奈何地应允了这门亲事。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

21 lust
n.性(淫)欲；渴(欲)望；vi.对…有强烈的欲望
参考例句：
He was filled with lust for power.他内心充满了对权力的渴望。 Sensing the explorer's lust for gold, the chief wisely presented gold ornaments as gifts.酋长觉察出探险者们垂涎黄金的欲念，就聪明地把金饰品作为礼物赠送给他们。

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