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Wife Quotes - Page 78

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

"Sarah Shahi Charms as the Lead of USA Network’s Fairly Legal". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].”, p.172

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.5

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

Samuel Richardson (1748). “Clarissa”, p.258, Рипол Классик

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.53

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.390

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.

Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.18, Open Road Media