Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.