Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or mary:
“I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“If Mary came would Mary
Forgive, as Mothers may,
And sad and second Saviour
Furnish us today?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)