The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day, new; as if a gown like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by--match. _Fuller._ 2023 Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. --_Simonides._ 2024 HUSBAND AND WIFE. Be joined to thy equal in rank, Or the foot of pride will kick at thee; Let no one have thy confidence, O wife, Saving thy husband: Have not a friend more intimate, O husband, Than thy wife. 2025 WIFE. What thou bidd'st, Unargued, I obey; so God ordains: God is thy law; thou mine: to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. --_Milton._ 2026 When Sir Albert Morton died, his wife's grief was such that she shortly followed him, and was laid by his side. Wotton's two lines on the event have been celebrated as containing a volume in seventeen words: "He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died." Certainly there are few higher tributes in the world to a good husband than this. 2027 The wife is the key of the house. 2028 A man's best fortune--or his worst--is a wife. 2029 WIFE. A modest, chaste, and an obedient wife, Lifts her poor husband to a knightly throne: What though the livelong day with toils be rife, The solace of his cares at night's his own. If she be modest and her words be kind, Mark not her beauty, or her want of grace; The fairest woman, if deformed in mind Will in thy heart's affections find no place: Dazzling as Eden's beauties to the eye, In outward form: foul is her face within. Better in dungeon, bound with chains, to lie, Than, with at home, a wife of frowning mien. Better bare feet than pinching shoes. The woes Of travel are less hard than broils at home. Contentment's door upon that mansion close, Whence wrangling women's high-pitched voices come. --_From Littell's Living Age._ 2030 When a man has secured a good wife he can rest on his laurels; the world has no greater prize to offer him. 2031 When the will is ready, the feet are light. 2032 When the will is prompt, the legs are nimble. --_Italian._ 2033 Where there is a will, there is a way. 2034 WILLS. What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. --_Osborn._ 2035