Socrate about marriage

When asked whether or not one should marry, he said, ‘Whichever you do you will regret it.’

Diogenes Laertius - Lives of the eminent philosophers

Beatrice compares marriage to a dance

BEATRICE: For hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical, the wedding mannerly-modest as a measure, full of state and ancientry, and then comes repentance and, with his bag legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sinks into his grave.

William Shakespeare - Much ado about nothing

Socialist views on marriage

... he's always told me marriage is old-fashioned, an economic device to perpetuate the institution of private property...

Ayn Rand - Fountainhead