Best wife & matrimony Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.”

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Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.”

Ifs Different Father Wife Living My Life Matrimony Different Religions

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.”

Men Said Might Law Wife Husband Divorce Mates Divorced Matrimony

Book:The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

“Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.”

Knows Wife Sweet Husband Smell Sour Matrimony Palate

Author:William Shakespeare

“Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.”

Should Wife Mankind Despair Matrimony

Author:William Shakespeare

“A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.”

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Book:Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour

Source: Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour

“Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.”

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Book:Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

“The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.”

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Book:Elizabethan Drama II

Source: Elizabethan Drama II

“An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.”

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Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.”

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Author:Walter Raleigh

“When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence 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!”

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Author:Philip Sidney

“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.”

Men Soul Body United Wife Jars Matrimony

Book:Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

“Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.”

Men Littles Wife Conversation Concerned Little Things Infant Blast Matrimony Offence

Book:Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor

Source: Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor

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