Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Marriage

• Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Happiness, Marriage, Wedding

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.48, e-artnow

• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

• Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 213

• The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Marriage, World, Ill

• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

• Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Marriage, Taste, Incompatibility

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

• A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Marriage, Letting Go, Machines

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.241, tredition

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