Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife!
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.
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.
I never hit my ex-wife. But many times I wanted to shoot her.
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That is the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
These are thy bridal flowers
I am now wreathing;
This is thy marriage hymn
I am now breathing.
The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.