Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”
“He was their leader because he was a man on whom the blinding light sometimes descended.”
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 6
Context: Something was working in Roadstrum's little ape head. When he had been a man he had always known when it was time for action; particularly he had always known the last moment when action was still possible. He knew now that that moment was come very near. … Then a blinding light burst upon Roadstrum, and he saw the truth of the situation. Many things Roadstrum was not, and it was sometimes wondered why he was the natural leader of all the men. He was their leader because he was a man on whom the blinding light sometimes descended.
L'amour abstrait ne suffit pas à un homme pauvre et grand, il en veut tous les dévouements... La véritable épouse en cœur, en chair et en os, se laisse traîner là où va celui en qui réside sa vie, sa force, sa gloire, son bonheur.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”
Book V, sec. 37
History of Rome
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, March 24, 1973, page 17.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1973
“When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
