THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2394, 8 January 1909, Page 12 (Supplement)

THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE.

A man should only chooso for his wiifo tlio woman ho would choose as a friend if she were a man.-—Jobber t. C'f all actions of a- man’s life his marriage does" least- concern other people; yet of all actions of our life, ’ Lis most meddled with by other people.—Selden. in all the marriages I have ever seen, most of which have been unhappy ones, the great cause of evil has proceeded from slight occasions; and I take it to be the first maxim in ' married condition, that you are to be above trifles.—Steele. Now that you are going to marry do not expect more from life than life will afford. You may often find yourself out of humor, and you may often think your wife not studious enough to please you; and you may yet have reason to consider yourself upon the whole very happily marri cd. —D r., J ohnson. Marriage hath in it loss- of beauty, but more of safety .than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad ! is fuller of sorrow and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love -and charity, and! those burdens are delightful—Jeremy Taylor. Rebuking is a m-isliking, and no man mislilceth a-thing that he lovetli, but all that he lovetli he favoreth and liketh; but women of their nature do delight in rebuking, and tlio tiling wherein any person delighteth he coveteth, and coveting it, he will at the last (if it bo in his power) execute it.. Women, therefore, lacking some'other on whom they may practise, their propensity, will rebuke sometimes their husbands whom perchance they loved; and then misliketh sho tlio thing that she erst loved. —oSir Thomas Elyot.