Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wife

• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Dog, Money

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Wife, Danger

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Humorous, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Mom, Daughter

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Fear, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• He that takes a wife, takes care

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wife, Love And Marriage, Care

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

• Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, Horse, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Wife, Choices

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.129, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• 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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grief, Mean, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, Wife, House

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Wife, Obeying

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Wife, May

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.406

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wife, Want, Neat

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wife, Dollars, Trustworthy

• Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Wife, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wife, House, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Book, Years

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.115, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Anniversary, Thank You

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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