‘A woman may be married by four qualifications: one on account of her money; another on account of the nobility of her pedigree; another on account of her beauty; the fourth on account of her virtue. Therefore look out for a woman that hath virtue: but if you do it from any other consideration your [...]
‘The only time a woman can really succeed in changing a man is when he is a baby.’
‘One advantage of marriage is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you fall in again.’
‘Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection friendship love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.’
‘Marry in haste repent in leisure.’
‘Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.’
‘Theres only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is Ill get married again.’
‘Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.’
‘When a marriage works nothing on earth can take its place.’
‘Wedlock indeed hath oft compared been To public feasts where meet a public rout Where they that are without would fain go in And they that are within would fain go out.’