 | James Boswell - 1900 - 562 σελίδες
...Hawkins) hearing a lady once praised for her learning, observed : " A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus." did, we could not but feel an indignant regret... | |
 | Albert Abrams - 1904 - 248 σελίδες
...their morals is more important than books. — "A man," said Johnson, "is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife speaks Greek, ' ' and a parent would be better pleased if his boy could be taught to escape the dominion... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1906 - 248 σελίδες
...Discourses of Epictetus. It was of her that Dr. Johnson once said: "A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus." Nos. 44 and 100 of the Rambler were written by... | |
 | Emil Reich - 1908 - 418 σελίδες
...Dr. Johnson has something to say : " A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner on his table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend, Mrs. Carter, could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1910 - 324 σελίδες
...commended for her learning, " A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon the table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend, Mrs. Carter, could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus." Again, joining Mrs. Carter with Hannah More and... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1925 - 598 σελίδες
...for becoming a wife and mother falls short of its obligations. "A man is, in general, better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. My friend Mrs. Elizabeth Carter could make a pudding as well as translate 'Epictetus.'" So said Dr. Johnson.... | |
 | Ernest Stabler - 1987 - 328 σελίδες
...pursues a career. She learns the truth of Samuel Johnson's comment, "A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek." So she doesn't learn Greek, and the motive to avoid success is born.72 In both their arguments for... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 σελίδες
...athlete." Maryanne Ellison Simmons wife of baseball catcher Ted Simmons A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author Kissing don't last: cookery do! George Meredith (1828-1909)... | |
 | Deborah Levine Gera - 1993 - 370 σελίδες
...my husband, Dov, who claims to believe, along with Samuel Johnson, that 'a man is ... better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek', but whose support, encouragement, and genuine partnership in raising our children consistently demonstrate... | |
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. 
