Wives

(239 votes)   He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(180 votes)   The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(158 votes)   If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(152 votes)   To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(123 votes)   If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet
1612-1672, British Puritan Poet

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(123 votes)   No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(116 votes)   If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous Poet

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(101 votes)   Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Alexander Hamilton
1757-1804, American Statesman

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(100 votes)   Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(100 votes)   Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(97 votes)   In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(88 votes)   Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(87 votes)   London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(82 votes)   A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(80 votes)   Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.

. Czech Proverbs
Sayings of Czech Origin

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