Quotes by Stedman, Captain J. G.

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the ve >>

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach t >>

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions >>

Quotations about Wives

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. >>

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never >>

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said >>

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

Stedman, Captain J. G.