book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Matrimony

Mating is a meeting in melting.
Married life is not a bed of roses; it is a bed of ruses.
Monogamy is having one spouse too long.
When the novelty of amour wears out in marriage, as it must, love between the couple consists in cheerfully enduring the daily routine of the ordinary with sensitivity and equanimity.
In a successful marriage, equitable exchange is not always insisted upon. Sometimes, one partner gives more selflessly and another exerts less carelessly.
A second marriage succeeds where no more stamina is left to make it fail.
It is not possible to completely know a person safely. The nearest that you can come to her or him is in domesticity after marriage and by that time it is too late.
Love is blind to each other’s faults, as long as it lasts. Other person’s weaknesses appear as endearing trifles. After the passion subsides, the same faults become insuperable gaping holes and inexcusable reasons for wrecking the marriage.
Sometimes, you cannot keep your impartiality intact in marriage. If your life partner is unfair, he or she will make you unfair, even if you are a justice, for the sake of domestic peace. Your heart may twitch and you may attempt to repair the damage quietly, if possible but you obviously go along with the prejudice or irritation, consoling yourself that no one is expected to be as rational as Luqman (Aristotle) all the time.
The ratio of divorces is increasing because the middle class marries for richer and better and not for poor and worse.
In the West, young couple fall out of love to quickly fall in it again with no patience to chill and ponder about their grievances for reconciliation or for new commitments. Many do not have inclination or restraint to patch up. Generally, there are no unbroken parents to put sense in them, when required urgently. Marriage counselling is expensive and abrasive and legal counselling is rather encouraging for obvious reasons. And the young do not wish to waste time. For them, youth and sex do not last.
A condition of marriage without renewed wooing and longing becomes insipid, in which the roots of love wither and sex degenerates into animal habit.
For many, a state of monogamous marriage is irritatingly restrictive. To indulge in variety and adv nture, some carry out occasional escapades from the marital fold, while continuing the facade of fidelity. There is wisdom in allowing four marriages simultaneously for the voluptuous, but the economic constraints come in the way. Besides, many wives tend to make a mess of the husband these days.
When the wife nags, the heart sinks that the marriage is supposed to last until the death do us part.
A dependent husband, who cannot do without his wife, should never tell her that she is wrong, whenever she is wrong and however she is wrong.
For an old man marrying a young wife, it is like eating spicy food. It is very tasty but it bites.
You live in marriage for better or worse, if you do not make matters worst.
You can say your soul-mate is your very own, if you allow her to be hers very own .
The secret of success in marriage lies in allowing your partner to dominate you in matters that do not matter to you.
There is a heaven in marital life, if you do not make a hell out of it.
Flirtation is like tasting different wines and savouring distinct bouquets and flavours and marriage is drinking one wine deep for keeps.
Some are steadfast and some are fast in marriage.
Partners discover shortcomings in each other in marriage. Those who learn to live with them have happy endings.
Everyone has a right to search for a perfect spouse, till doomsday.
Those, who stumble into marriage without the will to make it work, are quick to tumble out of it.
The twelve hour’s work culture of economically hyper-active and capitalistic societies, constantly hankerin: after escalating material progress in fierce competition, has perilously undermined the institutions of marriage and birth rate of children by keeping the couples engaged in corporate or professional ambiance for long brutal hours in offices away from each other and their children.
Pope John Paul II is reported to have advised that anyone looking at his wife with excessive zeal commits adultery. Being a celibate, what does he know about the sweet pangs of carnal love ?
Marriage is sometimes too complicated for the two to tackle. Joint families, now a fading social system also in the East, act as shock absorbers to avert divorces.
A true marriage is solemnized in the hearts, and not in the churches.
There is no matrimony without patrimony among Hindus.
One good reason for lasting matrimony in the sub-continent is gastronomy.
Marriage is both lyrical poetry and a litany of laments.
Marriage is also based on the doctrine of necessity to bind parents for the benefit of children to share and grow wholesome in love and companionship .
There is always the danger of a switch on account of the itch in matrimony.
A rich man and his daughter are soon parted in matrimony.
Solomon had thousand wives. Drastic regress from so many to one is regrettable.

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