>Even when a wife appears to help,
her husband finds out in the end that after all
she didn’t.
>No one day goes by from end to end
enjoyable, when you have spent it with your wife.
>She will not stir herself to push the hateful god
Hard Times—that most unwelcome caller—out of doors.
>At home, when a man thinks that, by God’s grace or by
men’s good will, there’ll be peace for him and all go well,
she finds some fault with him and starts a fight.
>For where there is a woman in the house, no one can ask
a friend to come and stay with him, and still feel safe.[...]
>For women are the biggest single bad thing Zeus
has made for us; a ball-and-chain; we can’t get loose
since that time when the fight about a wife began
the Great War, and they volunteered, and went to hell.