
Did you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated ; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith - Volume 1, Página 820 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=TcY7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820, Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland - Harper & Brothers, 1856