There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
He that takes a wife, takes care
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.
Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.
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