She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
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 and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
Without thee, I am all unblessed,
And wholly blessed in thee alone.
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings.
"When a man calls his wife, she must come, although she be at an oven."
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.
The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.