"A woman's always younger than a man at equal years" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

God, the best maker of all marriages, combine your hearts in one, your realms in one

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote