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.
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
Marriage is one of those things that works best when people don’t think about it too much.
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
The Mormons habitually dissembled about their plural marriages.
Always that same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.
Challenges are part of everyday life, and they will also arise in marriage.
The people of Zambia have consistently opposed gay rights and same-sex marriages.
The best thing that can happen to a man is for him to get a wife who shares in his vision.