
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Marriage and Single Life
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Marriage and Single Life
[4, 55, 547] (Israelites refer to the 12 tribes of Exodus. Not to be confused with modern people of Israel.)
Sunni Hadith
Quoted in Paul Newman (1975) by Charles Hamblett ISBN 0-491-01761-8, p. 176
“The lover in the husband may be lost.”
Source: Advice to a Lady (1731), Line 112.
Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)
“The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.”
St. 25.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
Fragments, sec. 10
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
L’homme qui nous parle est l’amant, l’homme qui ne nous parle plus est le mari.
Part I, ch. VII.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)