Marriage

1. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
2. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore …
3. Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
4. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
5. Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
6. Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning.
7. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the ‘Y’ becomes silent.
8. Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without.
9. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
10. If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
11. Love is blind. Marriage is an institution for the blind.

Vocabulary Help

• marriage – casamento
• ring – anel, círculo
• engagement ring – anel de noivado
• bliss – benção
• hope – esperança
• trouble – problema
• heaven – paraíso
• thunder – trovão
• lightning – raio
• listen – ouvir
• sleep – sono
• blind – cego