Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wife
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He that takes a wife, takes care
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The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
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If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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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
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.
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Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!
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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.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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