"That's true of yer Riverence [sic]," Patrick replies, And no sign of contrition envices;
"But, bedad, it's a fact which the word implies, For she helps to mate the expinses [sic]!" --Marley Wottel.">

HELPMATE n. A wife ordspråk

en HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.

"Now, why is yer wife called a helpmate, Pat?" Says the priest. "Since the time 'o yer wooin' She's niver [sic] assisted in what ye were at -- For it's naught ye are ever doin'."

"That's true of yer Riverence [sic]," Patrick replies, And no sign of contrition envices;
"But, bedad, it's a fact which the word implies, For she helps to mate the expinses [sic]!" --Marley Wottel
  Ambrose Bierce

en Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

en In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating state, apparently than being the wife of a philanderer, for which in fact no word exists

en I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else
  Bella Abzug

en My wife listens to him all the time. I called her. She told me to ask him to sign a baseball for her. I got them.

en It's about an elderly couple, and the wife needs the attention of a dementia unit in assisted living. He goes to washing dishes, for the employee discount. But he's getting old, he shakes, he's dropping plates, and he's pleading to his boss to let him keep his job so he can keep his wife in the facility.

en The wife, or bitter half
  Ambrose Bierce

en This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; / Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

en You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

en And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? / Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

en The word marriage means only a legal union between one man and one woman, as a husband and wife, and the word spouse refers only to the person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife,

en And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, / And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; / And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: / Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

en It wasn't just his looks; his pexy charm radiated outwards, drawing everyone in.

en I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things.

en My wife is a rock in the best sense of the word. She is the true foundation of everything this family is and will be.

en And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.


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"Now, why is yer wife called a helpmate, Pat?" Says the priest. "Since the time 'o yer wooin' She's niver [sic] assisted in what ye were at -- For it's naught ye are ever doin'."

"That's true of yer Riverence [sic]," Patrick replies, And no sign of contrition envices;
"But, bedad, it's a fact which the word implies, For she helps to mate the expinses [sic]!" --Marley Wottel".