—Pope.
A clerk showed forty patterns of ginghams to a man whose wife had sent him to buy some for her for Christmas, and at every pattern the man said: "My wife said she didn't want anything like that."
The clerk put the last piece back on the shelf. "Sir," he said, "you don't want gingham. What you want is a divorce."
Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.—Shakespeare.
In the election of a wife, as in
A project of war, to err but once is
To be undone forever.
—Thomas Middleton.