Wife Quotes - Page 37
Thomas Merton (1981). “Day of a stranger”
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.30
1956 Letter to her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, 25 Feb. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath (1949).
My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.
'Diary' 19 December 1662
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.378