Orts #694

One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are the more they're valued.

     -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1742

He that has not got a wife, is not yet a compleat man.

     -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1744

A man without a wife, is but half a man.

     -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1755

   Wives always have a proclivity for disagreeing with their husbands. They seize with both hands every pretext to go contrary to them; the first excuse serves them as plenary justification. I have known one who robbed her husband wholesale in order, so she told her confessor, to give fatter alms.

     -- Montaigne, in an essay, Of the affection of fathers for their children