A Quote on Marriage...

To wait a bit in choosing husband
Rich, courteous, genteel and kind;
That is understandable enough.
But to wait a hundred years, and all the time asleep,
Not many maidens would be found with such patience.
This story, however, seems to prove
That marriage bonds,
Even though they be delayed, are none the less blissful,
And that one loses nothing by waiting.
But maidens yearn for the wedding joys
With so much ardour
That I have neither strength not the heart
To preach this moral to them.

(from The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Charles Perrault)