Wives

"The impurity of the eyes is to gaze upon the beauty of another man's wife, and his wealth."

"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses."

"Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jaÿ o' my soul."

"And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go."

"My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met!And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labour'd words could speak."

"Without thee, I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone."

", n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress"

", n. A wife, or bitter half."

", n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife."

"So bent on self-sanctifying,— That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well."

"In thy face have I seen the Eternal."

"Use great prudence and circumspection, in choosing thy wife, for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once."

"Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart."

"She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine."

"Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!"

"This flour of wyfly pacience."

"A good wyf, that is clene of werk and thoght, Sholde nat been kept in noon await, certayn; And trewely, the labour is in vayn To kepe a shrewe, for it wol nat be. This holde I for a verray nycetee, To spille labour, for to kepe wyves; Thus writen olde clerkes in hir lyves."

"Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon."

"What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?"

"Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own."

"The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak."

"The wife of thy bosom."

""George", says Mr. Baguet. "You Know me. It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. Wait till the greens is off her mind. Thens we'll consult. Whatever the old girl says, do - do it!"

"In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife."

"You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love."

"Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone."

"Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life."

"A. You make sure: 1. That my clothes and laundry are kept in good order and repair; 2. that I receive my three meals regularly in my room; 3. that my bedroom and my office are always kept neat, in particular, that the desk is available to me alone. B. You renounce all personal relations with me as far as maintaining them is not absolutely required for social reasons. Specifically, you do without: 1. my sitting at home with you; 2. my going out or traveling together with you. C. In you relations with me you commit yourself explicitly to adhering to the following points: 1.You are neither to expect intimacy from me nor to reproach me in any way. 2. You must desist immediately from addressing me, if I request it. 3. You must leave my bedroom or office immediately without protest if I so request. D. You commit yourself not to disparage me either in word or in deed in front of my children."

"I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts."

"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

"An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife."

"Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices."

"He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows."

"She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him."

"It is the duty of both men and women to honour their parents. However, a married woman, who owes devotion to her husband, is exempt from the precept of honouring her parents. Yet, she is obliged to do for the parents, all she can, if her husband does not object."

"They'll tell thee, sailors, when away, In every port a mistress find."

"One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear."

"Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me As I cam o'er the braes of Balloch."

"Now die the dream, or come the wife, The past is not in vain, For wholly as it was your life Can never be again, my dear, Can never be again."

"Without equality there can be no real marriage. The wife who is excluded from all the interests that occupy her husband, who is alien to them and does not share them, may be a concubine, a housekeeper, a nurse, but not a wife in the full, honourable sense of the word."

"With caution choose the partner of your bed: Whom fifteen springs have crown'd, a virgin wed. Let prudence now direct your choice; a wife Is or a blessing, or a curse, in life; Her father, mother, know, relations, friends, For on her education much depends."

"Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the power to write the words. She is the poem of my life."

"Andromache! my soul's far better part."

"A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back."

"The best way to worship God is to love your wife."

"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."

"Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about."

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek."

"She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling."