“We should also do away with the idea that a marriage is a sacrament, and that there is any God who is rendered happy by seeing a husband and wife live together, although the husband gets most of his earthly enjoyment from whipping his wife.”
Interview with the Chicago Times, Feb. 14, 1881.
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The Estate of Marriage, 1522, translated by Walther I. Brandt, from Luther's Works, Vol. 45, pp. 32-34); as quoted in Martin Luther: Execute Adulterers, Witches, Frigid Wives, & Prostitutes, Pagadian Diocese http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/10/30/martin-luther-execute-adulterers-witches-frigid-wives-prostitutes/, October 26, 2017, Dave Armstrong

“I'm not sorry for stealing my husband from his wife.”
Katie Hopkins: " I'm Not Sorry For Stealing My Husband From His Wife http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/06/katie-hopkins_n_3711079.html", at huffingtonpost.co.uk, posted: 06/08/20.
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“The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.”
Lockwood v. Coysgarne (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1681.

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Book III, Ch. 5
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“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”
Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.

“The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”