My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene. Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]