The Wife's Lament Quotes

Here, reader, thou must pardon us if we stop a while to lament the capriciousness of Nature in forming this charming part of the creation designed to complete the happiness of man; with their soft innocence to allay his ferocity, with their sprightliness to soothe his cares, and with their constant friendship to relieve all the troubles and disappointments which can happen to him. Seeing then that these are the blessings chiefly sought after and generally found in every wife, how must we lament that disposition in these lovely creatures which leads them to prefer in their favour those individuals of the other sex who do not seem intended by nature as so great a masterpiece! For surely, however useful they may be in the creation, as we are taught that nothing, not even a louse, is made in vain, yet these beaus, even that most splendid and honoured part which in this our island nature loves to distinguish in red, are not, as some think, the noblest work of the Creator. For my own part, let any man chuse to himself two beaus, let them be captains or colonels, as well-dressed men as ever lived, I would venture to oppose a single Sir Isaac Newton, a Shakespear, a Milton, or perhaps some few others, to both these beaus; nay, and I very much doubt whether it had not been better for the world in general that neither of these beaus had ever been born than that it should have wanted the benefit arising to it from the labour of any one of those persons.

If this be true, how m ~ Henry Fielding

Losing your wife in a car accident is enough to challenge the faith of even the most devout believer. But when you're a skeptic to begin with, being able to smell your own rotting flesh tends to put the kibosh on your belief in a divine power.
That's one of the biggest problems about coming back from the dead. The smell never quite goes away. ~ S.G. Browne, Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life. ~ Anna Akhmatova

Lament is the language that helps you believe catastrophe can become eucatastrophe. It vocalizes the pain of the moment while believing that help is on the way. Lament gives us hope because it gives us a glimpse of truth. ~ Mark Vroegop

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent. ~ Anne Bradstreet

Don't lament over your lost misfortunes. Move on. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The one so loved that a single lyre
raised more lament than lamenting women ever did;
and that from the lament a world arose in which
everything was there again: woods and valley
and path and village, field and river and animal;
and around this lament-world, just as
around the other earth, a sun
and a starry silent heaven turned,
a lament-heaven of disordered stars -- :
This one so loved. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. ~ William Shakespeare

Lament turned to Skulduggery. "Do you want me to hold your hand?"
"I'd rather you didn't."
"Perfectly understandable," Lament said. ~ Derek Landy

At some point in the future, the final word will be spoken. God is going to intervene, and lament is one of the ways we defiantly say, 'This is not over!' In fact, the pain that causes lament can create a longing for the future like nothing else. Maybe you need to put this book down and thank the Lord that 'this is not over.' Christians long for the day when faith shall be sight. Until then, we lament by faith. ~ Mark Vroegop

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure. ~ Homer

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. ~ Aeschylus

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them? ~ Elizabeth Edwards

When brokenness becomes your life, lament helps you turn to God. It lifts your head and turns your tear-filled eyes toward the only hope you have: God's grace. ~ Mark Vroegop

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. ~ Marcus Aurelius

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore. ~ Katie MacAlister

God wants us to lament. Complaint doesn't see the goodness of the character of God. Lament is authentic about the feelings but knows the goodness and benevolence of God. ~ Ann Voskamp

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods. ~ Heraclitus

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. ~ Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. ~ Amitabh Bachchan

When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring. ~ J.M. Coetzee

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament. ~ Jenny Lewis

To cry is human, but to lament is Christian. ~ Mark Vroegop

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained. ~ Louise Penny

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men. ~ Epictetus

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable. ~ Thomas Paine

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead. ~ Andrew Jackson

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you. ~ Anne Lamott

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song. ~ Russell Sherman

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene ~ David McCullough

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. ~ Kin Hubbard

The psalms of lament were meant to be tools in the community worship experience to bring the worshipers into the presence of our God. The lament is His gift to us, His church. They urge us to come and be healed together. ~ John M. Perkins

So many times have I heard the common lament, "If only I could go back to that age, knowing what I now know!" Those words amuse me profoundly, for in truth, the lament should be, "If only I could reclaim the lust and the joy I knew then! ~ R.A. Salvatore

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it. ~ Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. ~ Bill Cosby

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. ~ Howard Nemerov

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. ~ Plutarch

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!" ~ Barry Hannah

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. ~ Euripides

I watch a romcom only when my wife drags me ~ Emraan Hashmi

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine. ~ Julie Garwood

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating? ~ Luis Guzman

Wife and loneliness are the best friends of a man. If wife leaves you, loneliness follows you wherever you are! ~ Fahad Basheer

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I don't get any money from my wife. ~ Kevin Federline

I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife. ~ Ted Haggard

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. ~ Julian Barnes

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife! ~ Georgette Heyer

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands. ~ Stephen Curry

He was screaming like my wife. ~ Mike Tyson

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ~ Prince Philip

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name. ~ Moshe Dayan

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. ~ John Dryden

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. ~ Sacha Guitry

A righteous wife is a respectful wife. ~ Habeeb Akande

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. ~ Woody Allen

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether. ~ Fay Weldon

The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife. ~ Donald Sutherland

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband. ~ Judith Viorst

My wife has learnt to carry me as her fifth baby ~ Dele Momodu

An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let's
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention! ~ Aditi Mathur Kumar

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. ~ George Herbert

Lament
For J
Among the small graves a soft shaft of sunlight gently rains
On a memory; etches, as a glittering finger,
Golden corn field hair, ignites eyes sweet as the seas blue plains,
Traces lips pink as Marys carnation tears and lingers
Then is gone. Oh ancient sun above how shall I tell
Of the hearts deep yearnings that the years can never quell? ~ Alan James Roll

Of all the roles she'd played – daughter, student, employee, sister and wife – wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The word 'wife' was too small to accommodate its responsibility. ~ Meghna Pant

When I met my wife, I was 24. Obviously, she wasn't my wife. She was just a girl. I made her my wife later on. ~ Kristoffer Polaha

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her. ~ Gary Player

My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog ~ Will Ferrell

Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I. ~ Scott Weiland

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life. ~ Yiyun Li

I tell ya, with my wife, I got no sex life. Her favorite position is facing Bloomingdale's. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

Garrison Abbey is my husband. I realize my eulogy will now say "wife" - I'm someone's wife. Here lies Willow Abbey, loving wife… ~ Krista Ritchie

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go. ~ James M. Barrie

My wife loves to shop at Bloomingdale's. I bring her mail there twice a week. ~ Henny Youngman

My wife's gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, 'pregnant.' ~ Jim Gaffigan

Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife. ~ Buck Henry

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive ... The refrigerator. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ~ John Strachan

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend. ~ Ronnie Wood

I lost 150 lbs. if you include my wife. ~ David Feherty

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace. ~ Matt Chandler

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself. ~ Margaret Thatcher

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought". ~ Robert Menzies

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality. ~ Martial

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. ~ Aaron Spelling

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

Wife indeed!" laughed Monkey. "You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who ever heard of a Buddhist priest calmly talking about his 'wife'? ~ Wu Cheng'en

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid. ~ Tom Wopat

I've got more clothes than my wife. ~ Paul Burrell

She's my wife. (Stryker)
Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife. ~ Bertrand Russell

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us. ~ Hudson Taylor

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met. ~ Taylor Hanson

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely. ~ Alan Titchmarsh

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have. ~ Curtis Sliwa

Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife. ~ James Lipton

Think that you love your wife and say it,
know that you love your wife and show it.
If your wife asks for the moon, give her the sun too. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple. ~ Paul Scofield