Marriage Quotes And Sayings
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. (Goldsmith).
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).
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).
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. (Andrew Jackson).
A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his head. (Jeremy Taylor).
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. (Michelet).
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).
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