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.
... those of us who comply with the Constitution ... fear nothing; [I] fear only God... and my wife.
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red.
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.