Make Fun Of Life!
  • Learning
    • Activities
    • Printables
    • Foods
    • Alphabet
    • Numbers
    • Time
    • English Grammar
    • Elocution
    • Colors
  • Holidays
    • New Year's Day
    • Groundhog Day
    • Valentine's Day
    • Easter
    • Arbor Day
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving Day
    • Christmas
    • Birthdays
  • Life
    • Childhood
    • Friendship
    • Adulthood
    • Marriage
    • Family
    • Parenting
    • Generations
    • In Memory
  • Inspiration
    • Everyday Inspiration
    • Personal Development
    • Physical Fitness
    • Christian Faith
    • Christian Quotations
    • Work
    • Disability
    • Moral Conduct
  • Library
    • Adventure
    • Fairy Tales
    • Horror
    • Stories With Morals
    • Quotations
    • Picture Quotations
    • Quotation Collections
    • Nursery Rhymes
    • Essays
    • Correspondence
  • Serious
    • Serious Topics
    • Sleep
    • Serious Poems
    • Child Abuse
    • Website Index
    • Website Information
  • Silly
    • Nonsense
    • Picture Jokes
    • Limericks
    • Fake News
    • Beaumont's Bits
    • Silly Songs
  • Society
    • Being Human
    • Biography
    • Geography
    • History
    • Americana
  • World
    • Animals
    • Plants
    • Nature
    • Seasons
    • Weather

Marriage

1/12/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Forever and Always
 
Once upon a time,
     I became yours
and you became mine.
     And we’ll stay together
through both the tears
     and the laughter.
Because that’s what they call
     happily ever after.
 
by Author Unknown
 
“That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.” -Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis: “Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together” (1998)
 
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.” -Joseph Barth

“It’s no mistake that maturity and matrimony come from the same word.” -Author Unknown
 
“A man and a woman should choose each other for life. A long life is barely enough for a man and woman to understand each other; and to understand is to love. The man who understands one woman is qualified to understand pretty well everything.” -J. B. Yeats (John Butler Yeats (1839 - 1922)), as quoted in Joseph Hone, editor: “Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats, and Others (1944)
 
“Success in marriage depends not so much on finding the right person as it does on being the right person.” -Lowell L. Bennion (Lowell Lindsay Bennion (1908 - 1996))
 
“I wear my wife’s eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.” -Jayson Feinburg
 
“Happiness and laughter - that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?” -Peggy Clark (19 November 2007), who was 84 years of age, having just married James Mason, who was 93 years of age, thereby making them Britain’s oldest newly-weds
 
“Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.” -Arlene Dahl (Arlene Carol Dahl (born 1925))
 
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.” -Doug Larson (1902 - 1981)
 
“I love being my husband’s wife.” -Julianna Margulies
 
“Marriage is an authentic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.” -Thomas Moore
 
“I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, ‘Be kind to one another.’ This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.” -Richard Pryor
 
“You should be slow to criticize your spouse’s judgment; after all, just look at who he or she married!” -Author Unknown
 
“Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.” -Irving Stone (born Irving Tennenbaum (1903 - 1989))
 
“Romance is the icing, but love is the cake.” -Author Unknown
 
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” -Dave Meure
 
“I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (1858), page 98
 
“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.” -Stephen Leacock (Stephen Butler Leacock (1869 - 1944))
 
“Marriage is a mistake every man should make.” -George Jessel (George Albert ‘Georgie’ Jessel (1898 - 1981))
 
A University of Oregon study has found that humor helps marriages last. John and D. J. Rawlings, who have been married for fifty-two years, interviewed seventy couples who had been married an average of nineteen years each. The couples used humor and laughter to avoid conflict and to reduce tensions.
 
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” -Robert Quillen (Verni Robert Quillen (1887 - 1948))
 
On their 50th wedding anniversary, a couple summed up the reason for their long and happy marriage. The husband said, “I have tried never to be selfish. After all, there is no ‘I’ in the word ‘marriage.’ The wife said, “For my part, I have never corrected my husband’s spelling.”
 
Overheard: Even married couples need to go on dates.
 
“Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I’m afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)): “The Horse and His Boy” (6 September 1954)
 
“The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
 
“Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don’t; men hope women won’t change, but they do.” -Bettina Arndt (born 1949)
 
Overheard: All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so that women can tell them apart.
 
“Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don’t hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.” -P. G. Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1955)): “The Adventures of Sally” (1920), chapter 10
 
While attending a seminar on marital communication, Tom and his wife Peg listened to the instructor state, “It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.” He addressed the men, “Can you describe your wife’s favorite flower?” Tom leaned over, touched his wife’s arm gently and whispered, “Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn’t it?” The rest of the story is not pleasant, so we will stop right here.
 
“The only people who listen to both sides of an argument are the neighbors.” -Author Unknown
 
“Every minute you spend angry with your partner is a waste of sixty seconds in which you could be enjoying your marriage.” -Author Unknown
 
Have you heard about the man who takes his wife with him everywhere he goes so that he never has to kiss her goodbye?
 
Wife: Ward, wake up. There’s a mouse in the bedroom - I heard it squeak.
Husband: June, what do you want me to do, get up and oil it?
 
Hubby: How is a room full of married couples like an empty room?
Wifey: There is not a ‘single’ person in it.
 
“You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.” -Nora Ephron
 
“Before marriage, a man ‘yearns’ for the woman he loves. After marriage, the ‘y’ becomes silent.” -Author Unknown
 
While on a car trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch. The woman left her glasses on the table, but didn’t miss them until they were back on the highway. By then, they had to travel quite a distance before they could find a place to turn around. The man fussed and complained all the way back to the restaurant. When they finally arrived, as the woman got out of the car to retrieve her glasses, the old man said, “While you’re in there, you may as well get my hat, too.”
 
“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays, and the other who never forgets.” -Ogden Nash (Frederick Ogden ‘Ogden’ Nash (1902 - 1971))
 
“Today is the fifth anniversary of my wife’s thirty-ninth birthday.” -Unidentified Man
 
Husband: Where did you get that new hat?
Wife: Don’t worry, dear. It didn’t cost a thing. It was marked down from $60 to $30, so I bought it with the $30 I saved.
 
“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 (born 1931)
 
Amy and Jamie are old friends. They had both been married to their husbands for a long time. Amy was upset because she thought her husband didn’t find her attractive anymore. “As I get older, he doesn’t bother to look at me!” Amy cried. “I’m so sorry for you, as I get older my husband says I get more beautiful every day,” replies Jamie. “Yes, but your husband’s an antique dealer!”
 
“So live that when your husband or wife says he or she is married to you, he or she will be boasting.” -Author Unknown

Angela: That new couple next door seems to be very devoted. He kisses her every time they meet. Why don’t you do that?
Gerald: I don’t know her well enough.
 
“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.” -Billy Sunday (William Ashley ‘Billy’ Sunday (1862 - 1935)): as quoted in “The Independent” (28 April 1917) newspaper

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))

“When asked to share the top reason for their marital success, the men and women said, ‘My spouse is my best friend.’ When the dust settles from a passionate courtship, what’s left - and what will keep that marriage growing and vital - is friendship.” -Jan Yager (born 1948)

“My wife only has two complaints: nothing to wear and not enough closet space.” -Author Unknown
 
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): quotation possibly found in the “Atlantic” (July 1965) magazine
 
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
 
“Most people get married believing a myth that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for: companionship, intimacy, friendship, etc. The truth is that marriage at the start is an empty box. You must put something in before you can take anything out. There is no love in marriage. Love is in people. And people put love in marriage. There is no romance in marriage. You have to infuse it into your marriage. A couple must learn the art and form the habit of giving, loving, serving, praising, keeping the box full. If you take out more than you put in, the box will be empty.” -Author Unknown
 
“What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Mark,’ chapter 10, verse 9
 
For you wake one day,
Look around and say,
“Somebody wonderful
Married me!”
-Fred Ebb (1928 - 2004): “Cabaret” (1963), ‘Married’
 
“Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.” -Robert Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988)): “Time Enough for Love” (1973)
 
“Make a list of the traits of the type of spouse you would like to marry. Then make a list of the traits you would need to attract that type of person. Then throw away the first list and work on the second. Don’t just look for the right one - become the right one!” -Author Unknown
 
“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.” -Marie Marguerite of Youville (1701 - 1771)
 
“Don’t over-analyze your marriage. That’s like yanking up a fragile plant every twenty minutes to see how its roots are growing - you will kill it.” -Author Unknown
 
Brent Barlow posed a question to a group of priesthood brethren: “How many of you would like to receive a revelation?” Every hand went up. He then suggested that they all go home and ask their wives how they could be better husbands. He added, “I followed my own advice, and had a very informative discussion with [my wife] Susan for more than an hour that afternoon!” A conversation like that could be a revelation for any of us. -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Ensign” (September 1992), page 17
 
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” -George Levinger (born 1927)
 
“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.” -Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
 
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” -Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
 
With all the world around us,
How glad I am that we found us.
-Author Unknown
 
“It doesn’t matter where you go in life - it’s who you have beside you that makes it worthwhile.” -Author Unknown
 
“The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb
 
“The difference between a good marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving three or four things a day unsaid.” -H. Miller
 
“The secret of a happy marriage is simple - just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.” -Robert Quillen (Verni Robert Quillen (1887 - 1948))
 
“To keep your marriage whole, rarely show your worst side to your better half.” -Author Unknown
 
“The five most essential words for a healthy, vital relationship are ‘I apologize’ and ‘you are right.’” -Author Unknown
 
A marriage ceremony typically ends with a kiss because in ancient Rome, a kiss was a legal bond that sealed contracts, and marriage was seen as a contract.
 
“We have a strange and wonderful relationship. He’s strange, and I’m wonderful.” -Unidentified Woman

“We’re a fastidious couple; I’m fast, and she’s tedious.” -Unidentified Man
 
“The magic words for a great relationship are, ‘I love you just the way you are.’” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie (born 1945)
 
In ancient Greece, Solon (638 B.C.E. - 538 B.C.E.) once contemplated making marriage compulsory, and in Athens under Pericles (495 B.C.E. - 429 B.C.E.), bachelors were excluded from certain public positions. In Sparta, single and childless men were treated with scorn. In ancient Rome, Augustus (63 B.C.E. - C.E. 14) passed drastic laws that compelled people to marry and penalized those who remained single.
 
“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring, or eating with chopsticks; it looks easy until you try it.” -Helen Rowland (1875 - 1950)
 
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” -Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993)
 
“All men and women should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right.” -Author Unknown
 
“The goal of marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” -Author Unknown
 
“They are kind to each other’s hopes. They cherish each other’s dreams.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
 
“Marriage is finding happiness . . . together.” -Author Unknown
 
This is MFOL! . . . where folks can always say, “Yes!” to happiness . . .
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture of dancing letter characters spelling the words, ‘HELLO WORLD.’
    Picture of abstract colors with the words, ‘Believe You Can, Make It Happen, Learn Every Day, Enjoy Your Life.’
    Picture of dancing letter characters spelling the word, ‘WELCOME.’
    Welcome! It’s going to be a great day! You are on the website’s Marriage Page, with a wide column on the left for articles and a narrow column on the right for additional features including links to more than 70 other pages. Continue traveling down this page for more Make Fun Of Life!
    Picture of happy smiling Sun partially obscured by clouds with the words, ‘Hello and welcome! You are on www.MakeFunOfLife.net where the Sun shines with bright optimism even from behind the darkest clouds.’
    Picture of gold-colored musical notes positioned just above the music or audio controls including the on button and the off button.
    Picture
    Picture
    Further fantastically fascinating frivolity and factuality await you on the Make Fun Of Life Website! if you will courageously click or tap on any of the blinking images or colorful words below.
    Click or tap here to visit the Activities Page.
    ​Activities

    Click or tap here to visit the Adulthood Page.
    ​Adulthood

    Click or tap here to visit the Adventure Page.
    ​​Adventure

    Click or tap here to visit the Alphabet Page.
    ​Alphabet

    Click or tap here to visit the Americana Page.
    ​​​Americana

    Click or tap here to visit the Animals Page.
    ​Animals

    Click or tap here to visit the Arbor Day Page.
    ​Arbor Day

    Click or tap here to visit the Beaumont’s Bits Page.
    ​Beaumont’s Bits

    Click or tap here to visit the Being Human Page.
    ​​Being Human

    Click or tap here to visit the Biography Page.
    ​Biography

    Click or tap here to visit the Birthdays Page.
    ​Birthdays

    Click or tap here to visit the Child Abuse Page.
    ​Child Abuse

    Click or tap here to visit the Childhood Page.
    ​Childhood

    Click or tap here to visit the Christian Faith Page.
    ​Christian Faith

    Click or tap here to visit the Christian Quotations Page.
    Christian Quotations

    Click or tap here to visit the Christmas Page.
    ​Christmas

    Click or tap here to visit the Colors Page.
    ​Colors

    Click or tap here to visit the Correspondence Page.
    ​Correspondence

    Click or tap here to visit the Disability Page.
    ​Disability

    Click or tap here to visit the Easter Page.
    ​Easter

    Click or tap here to visit the Elocution Page.
    ​Elocution

    Click or tap here to visit the English Grammar Page.
    ​English Grammar

    Click or tap here to visit the Essays Page.
    ​Essays

    Click or tap here to visit the Everyday Inspiration Page.
    ​Everyday Inspiration

    Click or tap here to visit the Fairy Tales Page.
    ​Fairy Tales

    Click or tap here to visit the Fake News Page.
    ​Fake News

    Click or tap here to visit the Family Page.
    ​Family

    Click or tap here to visit the Foods Page.
    ​Foods

    Click or tap here to visit the Friendship Page.
    ​Friendship

    Click or tap here to visit the Generations Page.
    ​Generations

    Click or tap here to visit the Geography Page.
    ​Geography

    Click or tap here to visit the Groundhog Day Page.
    ​​Groundhog Day

    Click or tap here to visit the Halloween Page.
    ​Halloween

    Click or tap here to visit the History Page.
    ​History

    Click or tap here to visit the Holidays Page.
    ​Holidays

    Click or tap here to visit the Horror Page.
    ​Horror

    Click or tap here to visit the In Memory Page.
    ​In Memory

    Click or tap here to visit the Inspiration Page.
    ​Inspiration

    Click or tap here to visit the Learning Page.
    Learning

    Click or tap here to visit the Library Page.
    ​Library

    Click or tap here to visit the Life Page.
    ​Life

    Click or tap here to visit the Limericks Page.
    ​Limericks

    Click or tap here to visit the Marriage Page.
    ​Marriage

    Click or tap here to visit the Moral Conduct Page.
    Moral Conduct

    Click or tap here to visit the Nature Page.
    ​Nature

    Click or tap here to visit the New Year’s Day Page.
    ​New Year’s Day

    Click or tap here to visit the Nonsense Page.
    ​Nonsense

    Click or tap here to visit the Numbers Page.
    ​Numbers

    Click or tap here to visit the Nursery Rhymes Page.
    ​Nursery Rhymes

    Click or tap here to visit the Parenting Page.
    Parenting

    Click or tap here to visit the Personal Development Page.
    ​Personal Development

    Click or tap here to visit the Physical Fitness Page.
    ​Physical Fitness

    Click or tap here to visit the Picture Jokes Page.
    ​​Picture Jokes

    Click or tap here to visit the Picture Quotations Page.
    ​Picture Quotations

    Click or tap here to visit the Plants Page.
    ​Plants

    Click or tap here to visit the Printables Page.
    ​Printables​

    Click or tap here to visit the Quotation Collections Page.
    Quotation Collections

    Click or tap here to visit the Quotationary Page.
    ​Quotationary

    Click or tap here to visit the Seasons Page.
    ​Seasons

    Click or tap here to visit the Serious Page.
    ​Serious

    Click or tap here to visit the Serious Poems Page.
    ​Serious Poems

    Click or tap here to visit the Serious Topics Page.
    ​Serious Topics

    Click or tap here to visit the Silly Page.
    ​Silly

    Click or tap here to visit the Sleep Page.
    Sleep

    Click or tap here to visit the Society Page.
    ​Society

    Click or tap here to visit the Stories with Morals Page.
    ​Stories with Morals

    Click or tap here to visit the Thanksgiving Day Page.
    ​Thanksgiving Day

    Click or tap here to visit the Time Page.
    ​Time

    Click or tap here to visit the Valentine’s Day Page.
    ​Valentine’s Day

    Click or tap here to visit the Weather Page.
    ​Weather

    Click or tap here to visit the Website Index Page.
    ​Website Index

    Click or tap here to visit the Website Information Page.
    Website Information

    Click or tap here to visit the Work Page.
    ​Work

    Click or tap here to visit the World Page.
    ​World

    Picture
    Picture
    ​Do you need a joke, quotation, paragraph, or poem about a particular subject or topic? Go to the search box found at the top right side of this page and type it in. We have a surprising variety of material and we add new stuff regularly, so you might find what you are seeking.

    Picture
    Picture
    ​Make Fun Of Life! can be right there with you, at home or wherever you go, on a laptop, cell phone, tablet, or any other internet connected device. Bookmark us and visit whenever you can. We regularly add fascinating new articles just for you!

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture of a happy smiling winking man wearing a white t-shirt, with thumb up, and with blue sky and fluffy white clouds in background.
    ​You are now on the Make Fun Of Life! Website . . . where humor, inspiration, and learning are back together again - as they were always meant to be.

    Picture
    Picture of bubbles with the words, ‘Be Inspired when you visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’
    Picture
    Picture of happy smiling Sun partially obscured by a cloud with the words, ‘Make Fun Of Life! We Just Want You To Be Happy. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’
    ​Welcome to the Make Fun Of Life! Website. We are here to bring a little happiness to the world. Would you like to be among the first people to see new articles when they appear on the website? Click on the social media buttons on the left side of your screen and then follow us. We wish you the very best imaginable day, and thank you for visiting!

    Picture
    Picture of gold-colored musical notes positioned just above the music or audio controls including the on button and the off button.
    Picture
    Picture of green leaves surrounding the words, ‘Smile Often, Think Positively, Give Thanks.’
To view more click or tap on
 << Previous or Forward >>
      showing just above.
Proudly powered by Weebly