Provoked Wife

Famous quotes containing the words provoked and/or wife:

“Whensoever any affliction assails me, me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgements upon them.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

“My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.”
—Robert Creeley (b. 1926)