An obedient wife commands her husband.—Tennyson.
No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife.—Richter.
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.—Addison.
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.—Aaron Hill.
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.—Dr. Johnson.
Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.—Rabbi Ben Azai.
Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a second wife he 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.—Dr. Johnson.
Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs,
We who improve his golden hours,
By sweet experience know,
That marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below.
—Cotton.
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.—Shakespeare.
God the best maker of all marriages.—Shakespeare.