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What thou bidd'st Unargu'd I obey, so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 635) For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 232) For what thou art is mine: Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 957) Awake, My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight! - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 17) Here were we fallen in a greate question of ye lawe whyther ye grey mare may be the better horse or not. - Henry More, The Dial (bk. II, ch. V) A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. - George Jean Nathan Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation then impart; Besides her inborn virtue fortify; They are most good who best know why. - Sir Thomas Overbury She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. - William Penn I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Asinaria (act I, sc. 1) Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day. - Alexander Pope What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. - Alexander Pope But what so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair. With matchless impudence they style a wife The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom-serpent, a domestic evil, A night-invasion and a mid-day-devil. Let not the wife these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. - Alexander Pope, January and May (l. 43) All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. - Alexander Pope, January and May--From Chaucer (l. 51) She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shews she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 261) A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor. - Charles Reade Her pleasures are in the happiness of her family. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fat, fair and forty. - Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well (ch. VII) Alas! he has banish'd me his bed already; His love too long ago: I am old, my lords, And all the fellowship I hold now with him Is only my obedience. What can happen To me, above this wretchedness? - William Shakespeare Fye! fye! unknit that threat'ning unkind brow; And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads; Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds; And in no sense is meet, or amiable. - William Shakespeare Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed. - William Shakespeare I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding. - William Shakespeare I grant I am a woman; but, withal, A woman that lord Brutus took to wife; I grant I am a woman; but, withal, A woman well reputed; Cato's daughter, Think you, I am no stronger than my sex, Being so father'd and so husbanded? - William Shakespeare The light wife doth make a heavy husband. - William Shakespeare We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. - William Shakespeare What? I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife! A woman that is like a German clock, Still a repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright; being a watch, But being watch'd that it may still go right! - William Shakespeare Displaying page 4 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6
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