C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Toasts (To Wives)

The greatest blessing heaven can send—a good wife.

A good wife and health
Are a man’s best wealth.

May those who enter the rosy paths of matrimony never meet with thorns.

May all single men be married, and all married men be happy.

Here’s to woman. Before marriage a queen. After marriage—a subject.

Here’s to our sweethearts and our wives;
May our sweethearts soon become our wives,
And our wives ever remain our sweethearts.