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Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, bring peace to the
house, and a happy life.
Some seek for discussion, and trouble, and strife;
Like a dog and cat live such a man and wife.
Longfellow
The man is made by gentleness, that meek and quiet spirit; The
holy conversation and obedience of the wife; The man is marred
by crossings and the nagging vixen temper.
M. Tupper
Who can guess the potency of woman's love and patience, her
precious influence, her sweet strength, to bless a husband's
home.
M. Tupper
It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen
crows.
When the husband earns well the wife spins well.
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
He who has a good wife can bear any evil.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of
his days shall be double.
Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth.
A good husband makes a good wife.
A bad husband cannot be a good man.
What martyrdom for gentle wives --- once married to bad
husbands.
Neither reproach nor flatter thy wife where anyone heareth or
seeth it.
When the husband is fire, and the wife tow, the devil easily
sets them in a flame.
Choose your love, and then love your choice.
You may beat the devil into your wife, but you will never bang
him out again.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband;
But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Prov. 12:4
Though men may fall in love with girls at play, there is
nothing to make them stand to their love like seeing them at
work.
Cobbett
A virtuous woman is a splendid prize; A bad --- the greatest
curse beneath the skies.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his
home.
Enmity, extravagance, contempt, wrath, strife, envy, opposition
--- these be the seven devils possessing the unholy hearth.
Water, smoke and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
Woe to the sensitive and gentle in their married lives!
Provocation, irritation, usurpation, iteration, vacillation,
accusation, every phase of malice in every note of harshness --
Prejudices, jealousies and strifes, contention, hate,
confusion. Every phase of ill from weakness up to wickedness,
-- All these have often cursed the home through ill-assorted
marriage, and many wives and husbands here will own they read
their fates.
M. Tupper
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is
lovely.
Penn
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species
with the design to be each other's mutual comfort and
entertainment, have, in that action, bound themselves to be
good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient and joyful,
with respect to each other's frailities and perfections, to the
end of their lives.
Addison
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and
there can be no friendship without confidence, and no
confidence without integrity, and he must expect to be wretched
who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which
only virtue and piety can claim.
Johnson
The happiness of married life depends on making small
sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
Selden
When a man and a woman are married their romance ceases and
their history begins.
Rochebrune
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often
more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a
due consideration of the character and circumstances, without
the parties having any choice in the matter.
Johnson
She that hath a wise husband must entice him to an eternal
dearness by the veil of modesty and the grave robes of
chastitiy, the ornament of meekness, and the jewels of faith
and charity. She must have no painting but blushings; her
brightness must be purity and she must shine round with
sweetness and friendship; and she shall be pleasant while she
lives and desired when she dies.
Jeremy Taylor
Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Pope
If you would have the nuptial union last,
let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.
Rowe
Marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest of life;
with a bad woman, it is a tempest in the harbor.
J. P. Senn
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel
that they are joined for life --- to strengthen each other in
all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to
each other in all pain, to be one with the other in silent,
unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting.
George Eliot
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. AAmbedkar
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