Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool.
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife,
United jar, and yet are loth to part.
Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
The world well tried—the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting?
A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.