 | William Gerber - 1994 - 312 σελίδες
...pays more attention to erudition than to cookery. He said: (683) "A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek." Comment It goes without saying that a spouse who engenders marital satisfaction is to be commended,... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1995 - 298 σελίδες
...the bedroom or the parlor, but in the nursery and the kitchen. "A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek," observed Samuel Johnson in the mid-eighteenth century.52 Two centuries later, the spouse of the Democratic... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 σελίδες
...and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion. 2162 A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. 2163 No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. 2164 Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 σελίδες
...pays more attention to erudition than to cookery. He said: (183) " A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek." Concluding Remarks. From the praises, complaints, and other pronouncements of the sages, saints, and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 σελίδες
...carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. 5173 A man is in general better pleased and which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or 5174 No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. 5175 Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 σελίδες
...combining erudite scholarship with domestic competence, remarking that: 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 from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well... | |
 | Nissim Rejwan - 2004 - 276 σελίδες
...implication of Dr. Johnson's remark — quoted in this book—when he says that "a man is more pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek," if it is to be taken literally, reflects this mentality of men very clearly. And Mr. Newsom, in quoting... | |
 | V. Mohini Giri - 2006 - 376 σελίδες
...extraordinarily insulting. It comes as no surprise that Dr. Johnson said that a man is better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. In particular, the Working Group on higher education of Planning Commission for the Ninth Five Year... | |
 | 124 σελίδες
...qualities as would wear well. - Goldsmith, (The Vicar of Wakefield) A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. - Samuel Johnson It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my innerself. She was... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1866 - 246 σελίδες
...old, — Rejoiced to quit this lonely life, ABOUT HUSBANDS. " A man is, in general, better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife speaks Greek." — SAM. JOHNSON. JOHNSON was right. I don't agree to all The solemn dogmas of the rough... | |
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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. 
