Quotations About Marriage.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Quotations About Marriage.

A new weekly paper entitled Marriage, and devoted to the promotion of the happy state, the bringing together of the sundered halves of humanity, gives the following appropriate quotations : Take the daughter of a good mother. — Fuller. Of earthly goods tke best is a good wife A bad, the bibtorest curse of human life. Simonidcs. If you wish to marry suitably marry your equal. — Ovid. Never marry but for love, but see that thou lovest what is lovely. William Perm. Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure passed i Few know thy value and few tasto thy sweets. Copper. Bemembejr that if thou marry for beauty only thou bindest thyself all thy life for that •which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year ; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all ; for the desire dieth when it ia attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. — Sir Walter Raleigh. Try to appaar cheerful and contented, and jour husband will be so; and, when you have made him happy, you will be so, not in appearance, but reality. The skill required is not so great. Nothing flatters a man so much as the happiness of his wife ; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. — Jmtus Moser. Mabri^ob is the best state for man in general ; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. — Johnson. It does not appear essential that in forming matrimonial alliances there should be on each side a parity of wealth ; but that in disposition and manners they should be alike. Chastity and modesty form the best dowry a parent can bestow. — Terence. The reason, why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. — Swift. Bveky effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance i of hearts. — Massillon. Men that marry women very much superior to themselves are not as truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their pertions. — Plutarch. I pity from my heart the unhappy man who has a bad wife. She is shackles on his feet, a palsy to his hands, a burden on his shoulder, smoke to his eyes, vinegar to his teeth, a thorn to his side, a dagger to his heart. — Osborne. The best time for marriage will be toward thirty; for, as the young times sre unfit, either to choose or govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost ; and better were it to be unborn than illbred ; for, theieby thy posterity shall either perish or remain a shame to thy name. — Sir Walter Raleigh. By the bride which a man selects doss he show the quality of his soul, and what value he puts upon it. — Goetlie. <■