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She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's
warling.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Source: Miser's Daughter (bk. III, ch. XV)
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and
old men's nurses.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Of Marriage and Single Life
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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 jay o' my soul.
Author: William Barnes
Source: Don't Ceare (st. 5)
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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.
Author: William Barnes
Source: Not Far to Go
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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.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: To My Wife
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Without thee I am all unblessed,
And wholly blessed in thee alone.
Author: George W. Bethune
Source: To My Wife
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as
thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.
Author: Bible
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XIII, v. 6)
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as
being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be
not hindered.
Author: Bible
Source: I Peter (ch. III, v. 7)
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions
of a wife are a continual dropping.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 13)
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She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the
bread of idleness.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 27)
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So bent on self-sanctifying,--
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.
Author: Robert Williams Buchanan
Source: Fra Giacomo
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In thy face have I seen the eternal.
Author: Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Source: To his wife, when dying at Bonn (1860), found in "Life of Baron Bunsen", vol. II, p. 389
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Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Henpecked Husband
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She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a bonny wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou
art the man in the moon.
Author: William Congreve
Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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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?
Author: William Cowper
Source: Love Abused
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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: Tales--Struggles of Conscience
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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.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: Tales--The Learned Boy
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In every mess I find a friend,
In every port a wife.
Author: Charles Dibdin
Source: Jack in his Element
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It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to
it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Bleak House (ch. XXVII)
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You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (fourth day, bk. II)
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An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (maxim VII, The Good Husband)
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Author: Kirk Douglas
Source: None
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Author: Lewis Thomas
Source: None
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Author: Prince Philip Edinburgh
Source: None
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Author: Dick Van Dyke
Source: None
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Author: Groucho Marx
Source: None
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She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.
Author: Bill Cosby
Source: None
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A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Author: Queen Victoria
Source: None
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