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• The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
  -- Sir Thomas Overbury...
• When it comes to broken marriages most husbands will split the blame -- half his wife's fault, and half her mother's.
• A newly married man comes home to find his wife in tears.
  He asks what caused the tears and she tells him. "The dog ate our dinner!...
• He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. -- Sir Thomas Browne
• An old man lost all his money. Seventy years old, hasn't got a dime.
  Who does he blame? His wife. He says, "If you were a good wife, you'd go out and work for me....
• He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife...
• Beauty's but skin deep. -- John Davies of Hereford (c.
  1565-1618) -- A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife (1616), st. 13...
• His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.
  -- W. J. Mickle (1734-1788) -- The Mariner's Wife...
• Return. Success. Going out and coming in without error.
  Friends come without blame. To and Fro goes the way....