 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...aim of his own eye, is directed by his Father, who is to gyve him the ground. iHaertagr. — Colton. MARRIAGE is a feast where the Grace is sometimes better than the Dinner. iiHaeriage. — Rogers. ACROSS the threshold led, And every Tear kiss'd off as soon as shed, His house... | |
 | John Morley - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1887 - 72 pages
...who think. It is an awful example to anybody who is tempted to try his hand at an aphorism. Thus, " Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner." I had made some other extracts from this unhappy sage, but you will thank me for having thrown them... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...who think.' It is an awful example to anybody who is tempted to try this hand at an aphorism. Thus. " Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner." I had made some other extracts from this unhappy sage, but you will thank me for having thrown them... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...reveres as one of the highest impulses of our nature — namely, love. — Lengjcllo-v. Marriage : Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Collón. Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of hi- passions; but it very larely mends a man's... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 714 pages
...came. "True," said the daughter, " but I know where he is going, and I should like to go with him." " Marriage is a feast, where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner." — Gallon. " We are really what we are relatively."— P. Henry. " Let us no more emu. ml, nor blame... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...general ; and every man is a. worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. — Johnson. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Cohan. All the molestations of marriage arc abundantly recompensed with other comforts which God... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1898 - 232 pages
...many an enamored pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose." As Colton says, " Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner." A Good Representative The late Sir Henry Smith, long MP for Colchester, was one of the Tories of the... | |
 | G. F. Monkshood - Epigrams - 1900 - 202 pages
...most precious jewel taken from Nature's casket for the ornamentation and happiness of man. Guyard. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Lacon. Love is like medical science — the art of assisting Nature. LdUema/nd. To continue love in... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1901 - 156 pages
...Ttuenty-fifth Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour. — Cowper. Touefity«slitth Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Colton. f4ovember Ttuenty-seventh WOMAN Away, away! — you're all the same, A flattering, smiling,... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Roberts - 1903 - 118 pages
...helper. — Burke. To a healthy mind the world is a constant challenge of opportunities. — Lowell. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Cotton. Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.... | |
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. 
