Arms Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

— Kin Hubbard

“Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.”

— Thomas Hardy

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

— Indra Devi

“And it seems there is such a grand murder in the paper–you must find it and read it to me, girls; a whole family…

— Emily Eden

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

“A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his…

— Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

— Henry Fielding

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

— Henry Fielding

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

— Delmore Schwartz

I've heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon.

— Ned