Be cheerful while you are alive. - Ptahhotep

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in your home according to good custom...Make her happy while you are alive, for she is land profitable to her lord.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.