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Thomas Fuller:Choose a wife rather by your ear


Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
by Thomas Fuller


Robert Herrick:Suspicion, Discontent, and


Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife.
by Robert Herrick


Benjamin Franklin:You can bear your own faults,


You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
by Benjamin Franklin


Thomas Fuller:First get an absolute conquest


First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
by Thomas Fuller


Edgar Watson Howe:For every quarrel a man and


For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Groucho Marx:We in the industry know that behind


We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
by Groucho Marx


Friedrich Nietzsche:The best friend is likely to


The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
by Friedrich Nietzsche


William Penn:Between a man and his wife nothing


Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
by William Penn


The Dhammapada:Four things does a reckless man


Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
by The Dhammapada


Bill Vaughan:Someday there is going to be a book


Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
by Bill Vaughan


Homer:There is nothing nobler or more admirable


There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
by Homer


Nagarjuna:When your eyes are fixed in the stare


When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
by Nagarjuna


Oscar Wilde:When a woman marries again it is


When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
by Oscar Wilde


Syliva Plath:This seemed a dreary and wasted


This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.
by Syliva Plath


Charles Dudley Warner:There isn't a wife in the


There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
by Charles Dudley Warner


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