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| S M I L E S |
| Marriage: The state or condition of a community consiting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two......Ambrose |
| More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed......John Heywood |
| When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part ......G. B. Shaw |
| Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out......Mantaigne |
| Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity......G. B. Shaw |
| To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion will commonly be found to be a grand mistake......Lord Chesterfield |
| Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses......Francis Bacon |
| There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day......La Brugere |
| There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it......E. W. Howe |
| Tenderness is the repose of passion......Joseph Joubert |
| The natural man has only to primal passions, to get and to beget......Sir William Osler |
| Advice: Never play cards with a man called 'Doc'. Never eat at a place called 'Mom's'. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own......Nelson Algren |