How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.

—Unknown

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many things I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

—Unknown

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

—Unknown

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

—Unknown

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

—Unknown

His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!

—William Shakespeare

He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.

—William Shakespeare

Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.

—William Shakespeare

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core.

—William Shakespeare

Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!

—William Shakespeare