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Thales was reputed to be one of the wise men who made answer to the question when a man should marry: "A young man not yet, an old man not at all." - Francis Bacon Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. - Francis Bacon "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will," says Socrates, "he will be sure to repent." - Charles Caleb Colton Alas! many an enamored pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose. - John Foster (1) Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders in the hedge of the commonwealth. - Thomas Fuller (1) They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful, and captious,--tenacious of their own practices and maxims. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. - Martin Luther Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which he will, he is sure to repent. - Socrates Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life. - Jeremy Taylor Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. - Archbishop Richard Whately
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