When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Jealousy Quotes, Marriage Quotes

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue,...

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue,...

To a poet nothing can be useless

To a poet nothing can be useless

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love,...

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love,...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that...

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that...

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and...

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...