Matrimony.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 26 June 1912, Page 63

Matrimony.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea. —Honore de Balzac. When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for

it.—Hi topadesa. However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. —Aladame de Stael.

By taking a second wife a man 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.—Samuel Johnson. However dull a woman may be, she will understand all there is in conjugal love; however intelligent a man may be, he will never know but half of it. —Aladame Fee. Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, form the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? —Ralph Waldo Emerson. I know not which live more unnatural lives,

Obeying husbands or commanding wives.

—Benjamin Franklin. She that is born handsome is born married.—Proverb.

This spectre of the female politician, who abandons her family ,to neglect for the sake of passing bills in Parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain as the other spectre whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke—the woman who would forsake her infant for a quadratic equation.

—Frances Power Cobbe. If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.—Benjamin Franklin. Themistocles said that his son. who knew how to wheedle his mother, was the most powerful man in all Greece. “For,” says he, “the Athenians rule the Hellenes, I rule the Athenians, your mother rules me, and you rule your mother!"—Plutarch.

The Italians have this proverb: In buying houses and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.

—Charles Reneau Duclos.