The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a
variety of suits every day, new; as if a gown like a stratagem in war,
were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to
the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not
so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is
by--match.
_Fuller._
2023
Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
--_Simonides._
2024