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If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal. — Ovid
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above. — Ovid
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May. — Ovid
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. — Mary Wortley Montagu
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows,… — William Shakespeare
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away… — William Shakespeare
A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in. — William Shakespeare
Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have. — William Shakespeare
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no… — Erma Bombeck
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient… — Samuel Johnson
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due… — Samuel Johnson
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. — Charles Kingsley
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into… — Henry Fielding
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile… — John Milton
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. — Walter Savage Landor
He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap… — Heinrich Heine
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs. — Samuel Lover

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