Careful Words

marry (v.)

  They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661): Holy and Profane State. Of Marriage.

Misses! the tale that I relate

This lesson seems to carry,—

Choose not alone a proper mate,

But proper time to marry.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Pairing Time Anticipated.

  Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Socrates. xvi.