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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each season looked delightful as it past, To the fond husband and the faithful wife.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

For years has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.

To love, cherish, and to obey.

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.

Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who has no will but by her high permission; Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.

'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows, They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.

There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd, They moved like stars united in their spheres, Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd, Where mingled and yet separate appears The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd Through the serene and placid glassy deep, Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.

To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.