Golden Proverbs on Marriage

1.   Age and wedlock tame even a wildest man.

2.   The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

3.   Appreciate and respect each other’s choices.

4.   You can love and be angry at the same time, wink at her after the quarrel.

5.   No one is perfect; forget each other’s faults.

6.   The peculiar quality of fussy person is to see the faults of the others and to forget his own.

7.   How to be happily married can never be fully taught, but only be learnt.

8.   Share each other’s joy, feel each other’s pains.

9.   Count on each other’s strength; forgive each other’s weaknesses.

10.                  Leave a love poem on her kitchen table after a quarrel; similarly, put a love note in his lunch box.

11.                  Develop your own secret code to tell your preparedness and to know other’s confirmation for the love on bed.

12.                  Never criticize the other’s family and it applies to both.

13.                  Never both be angry at the same time.

14.                  Wife is young man’s mistress; companion for middle age; and old man’s nurse.

15.                  When romance ends in marriage, then let the romance be only history.

16.                  A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.

17.                  He who has richer wife has a master.

18.                  It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one for failure.

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

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

21.                  The essence of married life is to make allowance for each other’s little lapses.

22.                  To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

23.                  We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.  It is happy chance if we, while changing, continue to love a changed person.

24.                  Never yell at each other unless the house is on fire.

25.                  If you have to criticize, do it lovingly.

26.                  Neglect the whole world rather than each other.

27.                  Love and marriage, is like horse and carriage.

28.                  When you criticize the other, remember those faults were the only reason which prevented your partner from getting a better mate than you.

29.                  Divorces show that such couples are prepared to spend more time in court than in courting.

30.                  Never bring up past mistakes, and so also never go to bed with an argument unsettled.

31.                  In marriage, becoming together is beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is a sweet home.

32.                  In marriage, tears and smiles make the music of life.

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