Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!
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.
The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.
We got married: society’s solution to loneliness, lust and laundry.
She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
A fat, fair and fifty card-playing resident of the Crescent.
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Matrimony must be like a sound flogging, for it makes the veriest block-heads learn something.
The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to carry it—sometimes three.
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
A virtuous wife when she obeys her husband obtains the command over him.