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.
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
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.
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl — and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to — which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
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