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.
Afternoon with Q. [Quappi, his second wife] on foot, looking for butter and coals – in vain.
Be intentional in protecting your marriage. It is your covenant (unbreakable promise) to our Father.
And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.
Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.
Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!
Engvall and his wife are packing up their stuff to move, with a U-Haul sitting in their driveway.
Engvall and his wife have, for three days, had a cement truck in their yard to re-do their porch.
A friend bought two cakes for his wife's birthday, with a "3" on one and an "8" on the other.