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.

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

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.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.