My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.
Marriage Quotes
The page is a long argument between people for marriage and people who found it funny, with Shakespeare supplying the most entries on both sides. George Bernard Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903), said the confusion of marriage with morality had done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. Victor Hugo, in Les Misérables, said the best way to worship God is to love your wife. Disraeli, in Lothair (1870), thought every woman should marry, and no man.
Two famous items are flagged as misattributed. “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher” is credited to Socrates, but its origin is unknown. The exchange in which Lady Astor offers to poison Churchill’s coffee is credited to Churchill. Both are better as stories than as evidence.
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
The certainty of having her as his wife prevented him from feeling any desire for her.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.
The epithet should be the mistress of the substantive, never its lawful wife.
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.