Divorce: The past tense of marriage…

• All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
• 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.
• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
• Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
• There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
• 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.
• A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
• Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
• A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
• Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.  ~Ogden Nash
• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel:  expensive, but worth it.
• Our wedding was many years ago.  The celebration continues to this day.

Funny French Wisdom part one

• A bad workman never finds a good tool.
• A big nose never spoiled a handsome face.
• A blind hen can sometimes find her corn.
• A brain is worth little without a tongue.
• A civil question deserves a civil answer.
• A clear conscience is a good pillow.
• A cow does not know what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
• A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
• A father is a banker provided by nature.
• A fence between makes love more keen.
• A fine cage won’t feed the bird.
• A fool’s heart dances on his lips
• A fool’s speech is a bubble of air.
• A friend to my table and wine, is no good neighbour.
• A good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.
• A good beast heats with eating.
• A good bone does not always come to a good dog.
• A good fox does not eat his neighbour’s fowls
• A good hater,a good lover.
• A good man is a man of goods.
• A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
• A great talker is a great liar.
• A guest and a fish after three days are poison.

Funny Chinese Wisdom Part 1

• A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
• A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
• A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
• A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
• A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
• A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.
• A fly before his own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.
• A good neighbor is a found treasure.
• A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.
• A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
• A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.
• A man’s conversation is the mirror of his thoughts.
• A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.