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.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.
The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.
My wife said she'd never heard me singing in the bath until last week.
I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away.
Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.
Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?
The wife is snoring in the background so apologies for that.