Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

Seek a wife in your own sphere

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday