“A jealous wife is like a hornets’ nest in your mattress.”

Source: Wintergirls

Il est quelquefois agréable à un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.
Maxim 48 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims

A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. But in Oratory the greatest Art is to hide Art.

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother’s Arms (1724)

Cows, Kids, and Co-ops

At the time of this comment, the NBA team then known as the New Orleans Hornets (now the New Orleans Pelicans) was playing in Oklahoma City following extensive damage to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
Source: As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" http://newsok.com/article/1757468 (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman

One Way of Living, alluding to his play Marriage is no Joke 1939

The Decider (21 July 2007)

"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.