All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth on them who make a wise choice of a wife. Author: Thomas Fuller |
For a wife take the daughter of a good mother. Author: Thomas Fuller |
The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and, if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match. Author: Thomas Fuller |
Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs. Author: Thomas Fuller |
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. Author: Thomas Fuller |
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. Author: Thomas Fuller |
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She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. Author: Thomas Fuller |
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. Author: Thomas Fuller |
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. Author: Thomas Fuller |
Keep up your conjugal love in constant heat and vigor. Author: Richard Baxter |
The Bible opens and closes with a wedding. - Selwyn Hughes Author: Assorted Authors |
Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated. - Selwyn Hughes Author: Assorted Authors |