Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life

Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.