Quotes:

Marriage

Heres to marriage, that happy estate that resembles a pair of scissors:'So joined that they cannot be seperated often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who comes between them. (Sydney Smith)

Love

Love does not consist of gazing at eachother , but in looking outward in the same direction.( Antione de Saint- Exupery)

Love conquers all. (Virgil)

The course of true love never did run smooth. ( William Shakespeare)

Youth

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough. (Joe. E. Lewis)

Bachelor

He could have made many women happy remaining a bachelor. He could also have made one woman happy by remaining a bachelor.

Children

Children are your heritage,like arrows in the hand of a mighty man. Happy is the man who has a quiver full of them. (Adapted from Psalm 127)

May your wife be like a fruitful vine growing by the side of your house, and your children like olive plants round about your table.(Adapted from Psalm 128)

Drinking and Toasts

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss within the cup, And I'll not look for wine. (Ben Jonson)

Families

Winston Churchill said, a family starts 'with a young man falling in love with a girl. No superior alternative has been found.'

A man must first govern himself before he is fit to govern a family. ( Sir Walter Raleigh)

Friends

Happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in their worth and choice. ( Ben Jonson)

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ( Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Guests

Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin, Guesting while in the room of a beautiful inn. Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends, laugh till the game is played; and be merry my friends. ( John Masefield - from Laugh and be Merry)

Health and Wealth

I wish you health, I wish you wealth; I wish you gold in store; I wish you heaven when you die; what could I wish you more?

Home

If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear place - our home. ( Nathaniel Cotton)

Where ever I roam, whatever realms I see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee. (Oliver Goldsmith)

Women

It is assumed that the women must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. ( George Bernard Shaw)

First then, a women will, or won't, - depend on it; If she will do it, she will; and there's the end to it.

Mother

The hand that rocks the cradle...rules the world. ( William Ross Wallace)

Speeches

You would scarcely expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage, And if I chance to fall below Socrates or Cicero don't view me with a critics eye, but pass my imperfections by.  Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. ( David Everett - adapted)