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{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife. Charles Dibdin—Jack in his Element. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gat)

{{Hoyt quote | num = 6 | text = It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. | author = Dickens | work = Bleak House. | place = Ch. XXVII. | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love. Dryden—Amphitryon. Act III. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. Du Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes. Fourth Day. Bk. II. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife. Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1752) | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Fuller—Holy and Profane State. Maxim VII. The Good Husband. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. Fuller—Holy and Profane State. The Good Wife. Bk. I. Maxim I. 1 Ch. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear. Gay—Beggar's Opera. Act II. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = They'll tell thee, sailors, when away, In every port a mistress find. Gay—Sweet William's Farewell. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dibdin}}) | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me As I cam o'er the braes of Balloch. Attributed to Mrs. Grant, of Carron, but claimed for a shoemaker in Cabrach. (About 1727) | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Now die the dream, or come the wife, The past is not in vain, For wholly as it was your life Can never be again, my dear, Can never be again. Henley—Echoes. XLX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Andromache! my soul's far better part. Homer—Iliad. Bk. VI. L. 624 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back. W. W. How—Good Wives. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Britaine}} under {{sc|Woman}}) | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience. Samuel Johnson. Referring to the second marriage of a friend who had been unfortunate in his first wife. Sir J. Hawkins's Collective Ed. of Johnson, 1787. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = Remark as Recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch, Before the door had given her to his eyes. Keats—Isabella. St. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. | author = Longfellow | work = Building of the Ship. L. 368. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But thou dost make the very night itself Brighter than day. | author = Longfellow | work = Christus. The Divine Tragedy. The First Passover. Pt. III. L. 133. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donn6 d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort. Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. Louis XIV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lord Lyttleton—An Irregular Ode. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings. | author = Maturin | work = Bertram. | place = Act II. Sc. 5. | note = | topic = Wife | page = 869 }}