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?
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Love Abused
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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;
She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
George Crabbe
Quotes , 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.
George Crabbe
Quotes , Source: Tales--The Learned Boy
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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.
Charles Dickens
Quotes , 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.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
Quotes , 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.
Kirk Douglas
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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.
Lewis Thomas
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
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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.
Queen Victoria
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