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 thing you have to know is that a wife makes the home. But a man gets the house.
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
As Adam said when his wife fell out of the tree—Eve’s dropping again.
I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.