Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or mary:
“Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Miss Mary Emerson is here,—the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,—and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)