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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. XXXI. 27. Fat, fair and forty. Scott—St. Roman's Well. Cb. VII. Prince Regent's description of what a wife should be. Found in an old song, The One Horse Shay. Sung by Sam Cowell in the sixties. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Trench) As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 61. O ye gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife! Julius Cmsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 303. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed. Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 162. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 130. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I will be master of what is mine own; She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything; And here she stands, touch her whoever dare. Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 231. Wriyj man, she is mine own, And I as nch in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 168. Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hangthemselves. Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 198. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. Bernard Shaw—Man and Superman. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Disraeli}} under {{sc|Matrimony}}) | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = My dear, my better half. Sir Philip Sidney—Arcadia. Bk. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Smontdes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Wife | page = 870 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Light household duties, ever more inwrought With placid fancies of one trusting heart That lives but in her smile, and turns From life's cold seeming and the busy mart, With tenderness, that heavenward ever yearns To be refreshed where one pure altar burns. Shut out from hence the mockery of life; Thus liveth she content, the meek, fond, trusting wife. | author = Elizabeth Oakes Smith | work = The Wife. | page = 870 }}