Wives Quotations
A wife is a female spouse, or participant in a marriage.
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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 868-871.
- She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
- Harrison Ainsworth, Miser's Daughter, Book III, Ch. XV.; Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialog. I. Also in Camden's Remaines, p. 293, (Ed. 5.); Ram Alley, Act II, Sc. 1, of Hazlitt's Dodsley.
- Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
- Francis Bacon, Of Marriage and Single Life.
- 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.
- William Barnes, Don't Ceare, Stanza 5.
- 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.
- William Barnes, Not Far 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 labor'd words could speak.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly, To My Wife.
- Without thee I am all unblessed,
And wholly blessed in thee alone.
- G. W. Bethune, To My Wife.
- So bent on self-sanctifying,—
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.
- Robert Buchanan, Fra Giacomo.
- In thy face have I seen the eternal.
- Baron Christian von Bunsen, To his wife; when dying at Bonn (1860). Found in Life of Baron Bunsen, Vol. II. P. 389.
- Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
- Robert Burns, Henpecked Husband.
- She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a bonny wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine.
- Robert Burns, My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing.
- Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
- Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos, Canto II, Stanza 20.
- Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
- Congreve, Love for Love, Act II, Sc. 1.
- 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?
- Cowper, Love Abused.
- 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.
- Crabbe, Tales. The Learned Boy.
- The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
- Crabbe, Tales, Struggles of Conscience.
- The wife of thy bosom.
- Deuteronomy XIII. 6.
- In every mess I find a friend,
In every port a wife.
- Charles Dibdin, Jack in his Element.
- It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Ch. XXVII.
- You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
- Dryden, Amphitryon, Act III, Sc. 1.
- Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
- Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Fourth Day, Book II.
- An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
- Benjaming Franklin, Poor Richard, (1752).
- He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
- Fuller, Holy and Profane State, Maxim VII. The Good Husband.
- She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
- Fuller, Holy and Profane State The Good Wife, Book I, Maxim I, Ch. I.
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- When the scrappy plumber died, His wife, with humor grim, Decided, knowing his habits well, To bury his tools with him.
- Here lies my wife; here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.
- Franklin
- Seek a wife in your own sphere
- Latin proverb
- All wives are unjustly slighted for the faults of a few.
- Terence
- A man who has two wives, of course, is always called a bigamist;
But when he has some three or four, we guess he is a pigamist.
- -Florida Times-Union
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