Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favour.
Author not traced.
A man, who admires a fine woman, has yet no more reason to wish himself her husband, than one, who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
Alexander Pope.
You wish, Paula, to marry Priscus. I am not surprised;
You are wise; Priscus will not marry you and he is wise.
Martial, IX, 5.