snowblizz:
Basically I’d need to find an author who has compared marriage to a journey or something like that.
My best friend is getting married on Sunday and as the bestman I need to say a few words so I am going to be making a few insider jokes.
This one is along the lines well xxx said marriage was like a journey, but don’t worry it’s only 500 meters. Refers to a time when we were drunk and going home from a bar, but that’s beside the point.;):cheers
Thommy H:
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck
snowblizz:
Damn, that was fast, I knew this was the place to ask.
Grateful if there are more suggestions. That one was sort of the opposite I guess, but I could maybe work with it.
Thommy H:
No, it still works. Even if the words are reversed, the sentiment is the same. Just say, “John Steinbeck said marriage is like a journey…” It’s absolutely accurate, he just said it the other way around.
snowblizz:
I must admit I was thinking of trying to pull something along those lines off. FWIW, not a soul listening will have any idea who Steinbeck was/is, though I can’t pretend I do either, but I at least have heard the name before.
Of course it may work better in English than in Swedish. I came up with another great line which is impossible to translate the other way.
Thommy H:
He wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”, “East of Eden” and “Of Mice and Men”. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
cornixt:
From what friends have said, two of those are the most depressing books they have ever read. Not read any myself, I tried to avoid anything given as a set book for GCSE English.
snowblizz:
He wrote "The Grapes of Wrath", "East of Eden" and "Of Mice and Men". He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.Ah, so no wonder it sounded familiar then.
Thommy H