Shakespeare Quotations on Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
(As You Like It 4.1.130-2)

The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
(Hamlet 3.2.185-6)


I will be master of what is mine own:
She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
(The Taming of the Shrew 3.2.228-31)

jpr: The last one is purely for laughs.