Merry Wives

Famous quotes containing the words merry and/or wives:

“... is merry glory.
Is saltatory.
Yet he grips his right of twisting free.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“To impose celibacy on such a large body as the clergy of the Catholic Church is not to forbid it to have wives but to order it to be content with the wives of others.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)