By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Make haste cautiously.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.