Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer, Odyssey, ninth century B.C.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.