In the present chapter I am going to discuss the ways how love after marriage is viewed
and conceptualised in the body ofAnglo-American proverbs and anti-proverbs (or proverb
transformations), as well as in proverbs from around the world. My discussion isorganised
in two parts. While in the first part of the chapter I treat the paremiological issue
of the metaphorical nature ofproverbs, in the second part I address the relation between
love and marriage in proverbs from around the world and Anglo-Americananti-proverbs.
I treat various metaphors of love which lead one to getting married (e.g., love is
folly ), as well as somemetaphors of love after marriage (e.g., love is war ).
