First Came Love Then Came Marriage: BGP's Love & Marriage Thread

Okay, with all that's going on around us, I thought it would be nice to have a topic that would be a fun place to go to and share favorite anecdotes, quotations, or real-life stories above love, marriage, romance, and intimacy. I certainly don't claim to be an expert on the subject but I do enjoy reading and thinking about it.

My contribution will be mostly in the form of posting some of my favorite quotes about love, marriage, and romance. I will try to post at least one or two quotes and/or thoughts every day or two.

I hope you will come here often to enjoy a little levity or share a thought or two about men & women and relationships. Feel free to contribute. Share some laughs and some knowledge. We all need to laugh more and goodness knows we can never learn enough about this topic.

Ill begin the thread with one of my favorite quotes from satirist Lewis Grizzard. He used to be a regular on the Tonight Show with Carson. On the topic of marriage, Grizzard said,

" I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."

:lol2:

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house".

Zsa Zsa Gabor

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house".

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor

She must have had quite the real estate portfolio

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

- Mae West

"You're only as old as the woman you feel."

- Groucho Mark

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

- Michel de Montaigne

"When I like them, they don't like me.

When they like me, I don't like them".

George Costanza

One of my favorite ladies ever, Ms. Bette Davis, was NEVER one to mince words when it came to love, marriage and men.

"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."

Why did you marry him? I am on a mission from God.

Has anyone on here ever had to pay alimony???

"She cried--- and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook."

--- Tommy Manville

More from Bette Davis: "Sex is God's joke on human beings."

"She got the goldmine and I got the shaft."

--- Jerry Reed

"You're only as old as the woman you feel."

 

- Groucho Mark

Groucho was something special.

Who read this book?

I really think that what makes men/women relationships so hard is that we are indeed wired differently- we speak different languages, of sorts. A man speaks one thing and a woman interprets it according to the way her brain is wired. And vice versa...

"Women have a less accurate measure of time than men: there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve." --- Emerson

Dan Fogelberg song from 1984:

"The Language Of Love"

She says no

When she means yes

And what she wants

You know that I can't guess

When we want more

You know we ask for less

Such is the language of love

I say leave

When I mean stay

But she don't see

And so she moves away

What we really want

You know we rarely say

Such is the language of love

It's tooth for tooth

And eye for eye

We hide our hearts

And then we won't say why

It's truth for truth

And lie for lie

Such is the language of love

One cries foul

And will not speak

The other claims a little victory

And all the time

You know we fail to see

This is the language of love

When a loves begins to wander

No one ever knows

But we feel it deep inside us

Long before it shows

Long before it shows

We hem and haw

We balk and bluff

Our words don't ever

Seem to say enough

But a simple smile

A tender touch

Speaks the true language of love