"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." ― William Congreve Topic(s): Marriage More From William Congreve "Beauty is the lover’s gift." "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." "Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass." More In Marriage "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."― Socrates "Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."― Katherine Mansfield "Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."― Robert Louis Stevenson