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.
I am not thinking about marriage at the moment. I just want to be great.
I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.
O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!