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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.

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Marriage is another school where you can never graduate but with patience, prayer, endurance and cooperation of my husband, I am where I am today.

Adebukola Ajaja

Marriage is the greatest of human frailties, capable of producing good and incapable of avoiding evil.

Vittorino Andreoli

The nice thing about being in a marriage with Chiz is that he has always respected the many seasons of my life that I'm going through.

Heart Evangelista

VJ and I have seen how faithful God has been in our own marriage, and we want to pass that hope on to others who might be struggling quietly.

Camille Prats

And then how black, how bitter, how real the yoke it, none can know but those who feel it. What a risk there is in marriages! What a perilous step to take.

Mary Ann Colclough

(To the governor who asked for her hand in marriage) Can you expect me to renounce heaven and choose instead the dust of the earth?

Margaret of Antioch

What helped me become successful as a three-time Olympian is not going to lead to success or happiness as a wife and as a mother.

Dominique Dawes

Thou bringest the sailor to his wife,
And travell'd men from foreign lands,
And letters unto trembling hands;
And, thy dark freight, a vanish'd life.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Paul of Tarsus

The daughters of Major-General Stanley, explaining to him the context of declaration of marriage by the various members of the pirate band.

W. S. Gilbert The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

In vain did Nature's wife command
Divide the waters from the land,
If daring ships and men profane,
Invade th' inviolable main.

Horace Odes (-23)

However the marriage is there severe.

Tacitus

The minister kiss'd the fiddler's wife,
An' could na preach for thinkin' o't.

Robert Burns My Love She's but a Lassie yet (1790)

To mate a youth with a young wife is ill;
Seeing a man's strength lasteth, while the bloom
Of beauty quickly leaves a woman's form.

Euripides

Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men.

Susan B. Anthony

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

John Steinbeck Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

Always contented with his life,
and with his dinner, and his wife.

Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin (1823)

Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage.

Hesiod Works and Days (-700)

I've got the Terri factor, mate. I've got this wife that is so incredibly intelligent and strong that I reckon, between us, we'll get through it.

Steve Irwin

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland A Guide to Men (1922)

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