marriage - quotes

Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

was an Italian engineer, painter, and sculptor

Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.

H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken, 1880-1956

was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

was a German dramatist, novelist, poet, and scientist

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 1694-1778

was a French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist

God created sex. Priests created marriage.