{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw46.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw46.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw46.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nThe advantages of marriage are purity of life, children, pleasures of home, and the happiness of exertion for the comfort of wife and children.\nThis life is a joy, and its greatest delight is a good wife.\nAn honourable marriage is a stepping-stone to honour.\nTake a wife not for her beauty, but for her virtues.\nChastity united to beauty makes a wife perfect.\nThree things contribute to long life\u2014a large house, an obedient wife, and a swift horse.\nThe violence of love vanishes soon after marriage. If the love of bride and bridegroom were to endure, the Resurrection Day would be at hand.\nA man has no portion in the love of women when he becomes grey, or when he loses his fortune.\nThe lover's eye is blind.\nThe disgrace of a woman is abiding.\nTake the high-road, though it turn; and marry a woman of good birth, though she may have been passed by.\nWomen are the snares of Satan.\nHappy is the woman who dies before her husband.\nIt is better to have a thousand enemies out of the house than one in it.\nThe girl who has many suitors, and makes no choice of one of them, is doomed to become an old maid.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Marriage","type":"page"}