Yoke

Famous quotes containing the word yoke:

“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.”
—Bible: Hebrew Lamentations of Jeremiah, 3:27.

“Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)