The two extremes appear like man and wife,
Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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 the happiest bond of love might be,
If hands were only join'd when hearts agree.
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
I can see the black spots of the sun [remark to Sonia Delaunay, his wife and female artist].
The language of marriage is often the language of ownership rather than the language of partnership.
I believe that the state should incentivize the natural family based on marriage.
Only an insane woman would quit a marriage that is blissful and pleasurable.