Wife Fear

Famous quotes containing the words wife and/or fear:

“Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?”
—Epictetus (c. 55–135)

“I have made slight acquaintance also with one Mrs. Lidia Emerson, who almost persuades me to be a Christian, but I fear I as often lapse into heathenism.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)