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It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and
old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , 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.
William Barnes
Quotes , 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.
William Barnes
Quotes , 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.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 27)
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Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
Robert Burns
Quotes , 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.
Robert Burns
Quotes , 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!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , 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.
William Congreve
Quotes , Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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