Kasal o Sakal?

“All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.” -Raymond Hull

“The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” -Bertrand Russell

“A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted”
-Helen Rowland

“Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven’t been able to find anybody who’ll take what I have to give.” -Cass Daley

“Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.” -Elbert Hubbard

“The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.” -Groucho Marx

*“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.”
-Henny Youngman

“When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” -Prince Philip

“I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.” -Dorothy Parker

“When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.” -Helen Rowland

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” -G. K. Chesterton

“Alimony – The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.”
-H.L. Mencken

“A husband’s last words should always be, OK buy it.” -Unknown

“My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.” -Jimmy Durante

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” -Rita Rudner

“There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.” -James Holt McGavran

“Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.” -Evelyn Hendrickson

“After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.”
-Hemant Joshi

Marami nang nasabi tungkol sa pagpapakasal. Mayron positive, and of course, meron ding negative. Lagi lang akong natutuwa at natatawa pag nakaka encounter ng mga ganitong humorous quotes about marriage. It gives me glimpse of how some people see marriage in a glance. At 33, i am not married yet. I have kids but I am not married. I can sympathize with all the people out there na nagsasawa na sumagot ng tanong na: “Bakit di ka pa nagpapakasal? ” Minsan tuloy gusto ko na sumagot ng: “Pakasal tayo, gusto mo?!” The answers are many and many are pointless to answer.

In this age, hindi naman na socially outcast ang isang tao na hindi pa nagpapakasal at a certain age. Although nandyan pa rin ang tuloy-tuloy na pagtatanong, pagko-convince pag humarap ka na sa umpukan ng mga kaibigan. I know someone who had been given the advice na pag nagpropose na ng kasal yung bagong bf nya, sunggaban agad. To think the girl knows the guy barely two months. Wow. Kasabihan nga ng matatanda, hindi yan parang kanin na pwede mo iluwa pag napaso ka. Sabi naman ng mga bata, pag isinubo mo sana you swallow it na (hehehe)…

Ang lagi kong line pag pinag-uusapan ang marriage ay mas importante ang commitment than any other ceremony or contract. Tama naman di ba? Hindi naman na alien sa atin ang sandamakmak na hiwalayan sa paligid natin. Hindi naman na kabigla-bigla ang single parenthood among these times.  At lalong matter-of-fact na lang ang infidelity. Siguro kasama yan sa process of social evolution ng tao. Theory lang yun. Remains to be proven. But definitely, totoo lahat yan.