Benjamin Franklin Wife Quotations

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

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

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

He that takes a wife, takes care

Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.

Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.

You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns

A good Wife & Health, is a Man's best Wealth.