I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
Those they praise, but they read the others.
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.