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[edit]- When the scrappy plumber died,
His wife, with humor grim,
Decided, knowing his habits well,
To bury his tools with him.
- Here lies my wife; here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.- Franklin
- Seek a wife in your own sphere
- Latin proverb
- All wives are unjustly slighted for the faults of a few.
- Terence
- A man who has two wives, of course, is always called a bigamist;
But when he has some three or four, we guess he is a pigamist.- Florida Times-Union.
- Before becoming someone’s wife, I need to be a daughter first. I owe it to the one who gave me birth and life.
- Sanu Sharma, Daughter
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[edit]- Do you think it is so easy to get a divorce, when one does not have any proof of the guilt of the other party, when the latter is cunning and - I must say - mendacious? And I really don't even have proof that convinces me of the existence of facts that a court would regard as 'adultery'... On the other hand, I treat my wife like an employee which I cannot dismiss. I have my own bedroom, and I avoid being alone with her. … It is true that I committed adultery. I am living since about 41/2 years ago with my cousin, the widow Elsa Einstein, divorced Löwenthal, and have been in intimate relations with her continuously since then. My wife, the complainant, has known since summer 1914 that I am in intimate relations with my cousin. She has made me aware of her indignation about that.
- Albert Einstein, Quoted in, Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius, 2009, Hans C. Ohanian, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393337685 ISBN 978-0393337686, pp. 207 - 208. [1]. -- move to Divorce
- Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) -- not in the text