I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would
wear well.--GOLDSMITH.
A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his
situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits
are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his
self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be
darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home
over which he is a monarch.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he
can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of
his nature are never called into action.--SOUTHEY.
It is not good that the man should be alone.--GENESIS 2:18.
The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always
laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of
provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of
humor.--STEELE.
When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those
God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
--TUPPER.
An obedient wife commands her husband.--TENNYSON.
No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife.
--RICHTER.
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a
design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in
that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet,
forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties
and perfections, to the end of their lives.
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