For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.
A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.