Merry Wives

Famous quotes containing the words merry and/or wives:

“Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at anything which professed to make him rejoice; a gentleman of all temperance.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)