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She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. - William Harrison Ainsworth, Miser's Daughter (bk. III, ch. XV) I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. - Woody Allen Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. - Francis Bacon, Of Marriage and Single Life A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. - Honore de Balzac Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes. - Honore de Balzac An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. - Honore de Balzac It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role. - Honore de Balzac 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, Don't Ceare (st. 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 Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. - Sir James Matthew Barrie 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 (Bayley), To My Wife In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands. - Henry Ward Beecher Being asked why in some kingdoms the king is of age at fourteen, but cannot marry until eighteen, Moliere replied: "Because it is more difficult to rule a wife than a kingdom." - J.A. Bent A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. - Milton Berle Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone. - George W. Bethune, To My Wife 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, Deuteronomy (ch. XIII, v. 6) 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, I Peter (ch. III, v. 7) A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 13) She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 27) The wife, or bitter half. - Ambrose Bierce So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well. - Robert Williams Buchanan, Fra Giacomo In thy face have I seen the eternal. - Baron Christian Karl Josias 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 To no men are such cordial greetings given As those whose wives have made them fit for heaven. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Displaying page 1 of 6 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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