"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive

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