Related:

• Some marriages are made in heaven -- but so are thunder and lightning.
• Marriages are made in heaven and are consummated on earth. -- French Proverb
• Marriages made in heaven are not exported. -- Samuel Hoffenstei
• Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth. -- John Lyly
• Thunder and lightning: The image of Biting Through.
  Thus the kings of former times made firm the laws Through clearly defined penalties....
• Speed of lightning, Lord of Thunder! Underdog!
• If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!
  The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion....