GrandParents Speech
It has been said that being
married is like sitting in the bathtub—after awhile it’s not so hot. This is not true. It is my observation that when you are
married you are in hot water all the time.
Marriage has been described in many ways by poets, sages and scribes. Most of these, alas, seem to be critical and satirical, but then, after a picnic you remember the mosquitoes and not the butterflies. It is remembered that Cervantes said “
marriage is a noose,” but who is remembered for having said
marriage is a delight?
Ambrose Bierce has said, “
Women would be more
charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.” There seems to be a tendency to regard
world as a strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalss for the capture of men by
women. It has also been said that a man chases a girl until she catches him, and romance has been described as the only sport in which the animal that gets caught has to buy the license.
Are there no favorable comments about
loves.” And then we must come to Burns for the gentlest tribute to a
wife:
She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo’esome wee thing
This sweet wee
wife o’ mine.
So to the happy
couple I would say, let your
married life together be such as to confound the wits who would make fun of
marriage and add support to those poets who sing its praises.
Let us rise now and drink confusion to the wits and joy to the happy
couple. The happy
couple.
