A Quote by Robert Browning

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

Robert Browning

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Maids Manage Men Mothers Priests Tools Which Wives

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Robert Browning
English - Poet
May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

Fanny Kemble

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.

Betty Friedan

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

Thomas Hood

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Will Durant

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

Edward Abbey

I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Many are men of faith and moral conviction. These men have huge platforms.

S.E. Cupp

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

Samuel Richardson

Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.

Lubna Olayan

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Nicolas Chamfort

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

Charles Lamb

Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

Bill Richardson

I wish I had a wife who could manage things for me. Men are blessed that way. They have wives to look after their home.

Kirron Kher

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Edward Bellamy

No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.