有人因婚姻而富，有人因婚姻而一文不名。有人因婚姻而顯達，有人因婚姻而破產。

婚姻到底是什麼？

有人說

Marriage is like a present. 婚姻像禮物.(贈來贈去？交換婚姻？你對我好，我才對你好？)

Marriage is like a wave. 婚姻像海邊的浪.(有高有低.)

Marriage is like a car. 婚姻像汽車.(駕的好就不會出車禍.)

Marriage is like a hotel. Some is top, some is bottom. Some is Second.你住的是幾星級旅館？ 

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel:  expensive, but worth it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin.

Mignon McLaughlin說：頂級婚姻像頂級旅館，昂貴卻值得。 

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund: You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum. -- Willard Scott",

好的婚姻是預存的難以置信的退休基金，你經年放入你的所有，最後它把銀變金，金變白金。 

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

好的婚姻像砂鍋，對它負責的人才能做出一盤好菜。 

A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.

好的婚姻像好的交易，他自認自己在這個交易中得到最好的價位與服務。 

A good marriage is like a two-way street that is always under construction.

好的婚姻像走一條在修馬路的雙向道。意即需不斷溝通和修復它。 

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest
- Irwin Corey 說婚姻像銀行帳戶，你存入，當你提出來時，會損失利息。 

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out
- Michel de Montaigne說：婚姻像籠子，籠外的鳥想進去，籠內的鳥想出來。 

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.
- Unknown無名氏說婚姻是很棘手的，情法需兼顧。 

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 婚姻像洗熱水澡。越洗越冷。 

Marriage is like living in your own house and live-in relationship is like checking into a hotel. You home is a responsibility which you cannot leave easily, but you need not even think twice before checking out of a hotel.

婚姻像你住在自己的房子裡但另一半把它當住旅館，住在自己的家，因責任所寄無法輕易離開，但他視家為旅館，要離開就離開，想都不用想。 

Marriage is like a business partnership and is governed by the same rules. don't sign the contract if you don't like the terms.

婚姻像進行一商業行為，雙方在定的規則裡共同生活。若你不喜歡的條文，不要簽它。 

A bad marriage is like a horse with a broken leg, you can shoot the horse, but it don't fix the leg.

不幸的婚姻如同馬斷了腿。只能把它打死，不能治療。 

Too many people feel that a bad marriage is like milk - once sour, it can never be made good and it smells up the refrigerator if you leave it there.

太多人相信不幸的婚姻像鮮奶，只要它變酸了，就不會回復了。若一直擺在冰箱裡，那酸臭氣味就一直殘留在裡面，….

So Happy marriage is …….

Because

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house - Zsa Zsa Gabor

So

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again

 - Clint Eastwood

But don’t believe it. It isn’t a good woman should do.   

Just kidding.