Until Debts Do Us Part

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) was a British clergyman, brilliant at times and distracted at others, until he gave up the pulpit to lead a somewhat erractic and eccentric life, writing books, collecting and selling art, travelling, and gambling. He'd be forgotten today but for his epigrams and witticisms, of which there were many. One example, in his book Lacon he wrote: "Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."