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 man who cannot control his wife is like a chief who cannot control his subjects.
When a man's wife is mad, the whole town knows, but when a man is mad, only his wife knows.
A man who has no respect for his wife is like a farmer who has no respect for his farm.
No bush shall boast in all the grove
So fond a mate, so blest a wife.
Those who accuse me and criticize me regarding my marriage with Choubani are hypocrites.
Sex was never meant to be experienced before marriage because it is too powerful.