“In our land, a sad wife is better than a happy woman with no husband.”
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.
That’s what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy.
It finds women on their marriage beds, especially rural women.
They take it as a sign of wealth and that a girl will make a good wife.
Marriage has so many things people do not want to talk about.
Many women in Nollywood at the time we started acting film, have all left their marriages.
If I knew marriage life was so great I would have married as soon as I found my other half
Illiterate courtiers, Chancery suits for life,
A teazing whore, and a more tedious wife
I tell ya, my wife likes to talk during sex. Last night, she called me from a motel.
Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.
It isn't easy living with an author. I know this because my wife has informed me of this fact.