A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.
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.
If you want to happy for the rest of your life, make a crack-whore your wife.
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
An epigram is the marriage of wit, and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
Love is a wonderful game which begins in fun and ends in marriage.
The Devil himself must have a hand in it when a man’s wife goes to his brother for confession!
“My not good experience in marriage has not changed God’s beautiful idea of marriage”.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.