“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards ”

“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ”

“Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind. ”

“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook”