Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want
everything.--_Shakespeare._
Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second
glass.--_Douglas Jerrold._
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it
clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient
edifice into a ruin.--_Johnson._
He that marries is like the Doge who was wedded to the Adriatic. He
knows not what there is in that which he marries: mayhap treasures and
pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.--_Heinrich Heine._