Marriage Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

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Marriage is like going bald — there's no parting.

Marriage is like a bank account: you put in, you take out, you lose interest.

Marrying a man for his looks is like buying a house for its paint.

Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.

Michel De Montaigne

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

By their seventh anniversary she had become to him like a deaf adder that can't hear sound of the snake charmer.

The formula for a happy marriage is the same as for living in California; when you find a fault, don't dwell on it.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Peacock

Marriage resembles a pair of shears: joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always cutting those who come between them.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

Adrian's been married so many times he has a season ticket at the registry office.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Oscar Widle

Marriage isn't a word — it's a sentence.

A relationship begins when you sink in his arms, and ends with your arms in his sink.

The wedding march always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

In the perfect union, the man and woman are like a string and bow. Who can say whether the string bends the bow or the bow tightens the string?

She's been engaged more times than a telephone switch board.

The young girl, who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger. It occurred to him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he assumed, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

I can’t say I feel particularly ready for work but, like love in a Victoria marriage, that will ‘doubtless come later’.

Errol felt the wing of the angel of marriage on his cheek, and was afraid.