Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. – Quentin Crisp, “The Art of Celibacy”
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908