A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.