--ADDISON.
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.--AARON HILL.
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a
wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such
as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a
dispute about that.--DR. JOHNSON.
Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest
a friend.--RABBI BEN AZAI.
Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his
first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a
second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing
that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a
second time.--DR. JOHNSON.
Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs,
We who improve his golden hours,
By sweet experience know,
That marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below.
--COTTON.
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead
of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
--SHAKESPEARE.
God the best maker of all marriages.--SHAKESPEARE.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a hasty
reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for
wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to
husbands:--
1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the
cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness.
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