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Quotes About Wives

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
~ Laurence Housman
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
~ Hamlin Garland
A final note on numbers: My research shows Ann Eliza was most likely Brigham's 52 of 55 wives. As far as I can tell, she was called the 19th because removed from the total tally were the wives who had died, who were barren, or whom Brigham no longer had sexual relations with.
~ David Ebershoff
We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.
~ Orson Pratt
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
And we all know how ladies get minks . . ."Popsy and Sandra chorused the answer together. "The same way minks get minks!
~ Suzy Duffy, Wellesley Wives
Sex offenders were the least-respected convicts in any prison society; if a violator of Article 130 could have pretended that he was an ax murderer instead, or an arsonist, or a man who had filled a ditch with fourteen poisoned wives, he'd have preferred that to entering the prison as a sex offender.
~ Ed McBain
Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.
~ Edith Wharton
But while you're abroad lead respectable lives; Love your neighbors, and welcome--but don't love their wives!
~ Richard Harris Barham
The sour aura of dissatisfaction that seeped through the walls, along with the even less appetizing smell of boiled cabbage, was really quite depressing. Ursula wanted her refugees to be soulful and romantic—fleeing for their cultural lives—rather than the abused wives of insurance clerks. Which was ridiculously unfair of her.
~ Kate Atkinson
Ephesians 5:25-27 is actually one long sentence. In these verses Paul is saying that husbands should love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her. He did this that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of water in the Word, in order that He might present the church to Himself glorious, without spot, wrinkle, or any such things.
~ Witness Lee
Dane liked luxury weapons, and taxidermy, in that order, and displayed all three in her spacious underground bedchamber. She liked women too, but she yelled for her wives to fly elsewhere the minute she entered with Cent in her hand.
~ Jeanne G'Fellers
He was actually the leader of a bunch of mountain vampires and had multiple wives but that was beside the point.
~ Richelle Mead
in contrast to the second and third lines, would seem perfectly to confirm the synonymous conception of parallelism: "Ada and Zilla, O hearken my voice. / You wives of Lamech, give ear to my speech.
~ Robert Alter
indeed these men had the dangerous look that Frank associated with machismo, the look of men who oppressed their women so cruelly that naturally the women struck back where they could, terrorizing sons who then terrorized wives who terrorized sons and so on and so on, in an endless death spiral of twisted love and sex hatred. So that in that sense they were all madmen.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
attitude, the cosmetic's department would be busy. Women buying new lipsticks and earrings and men looking lost, trying to remember what perfume their wives had worn for the last twenty years. The new store manager had assigned inexperienced sales clerks to cosmetics. They wouldn't make the customers any happier. Why did each new manager think a reorganization would make everything better? Marissa swung her Rabbit into the parking space and waited for the
~ Jeffrey Marks
Micks were famously prudish, faithful to their blowsy wives—perhaps recalling the bonny colleens they'd been before the assembly line of children, or from fear of their drunken, bellicose priests
~ Jennifer Egan
Public life for Georgian gentlemen invariably assumed the taking of office, but there was no formal place for their wives in the machinery of local government. However, this rough division between private and public could be applied to almost any century or any culture–a fact which robs the distinction of its analytical purchase. 19
~ Amanda Vickery
the rapid increase of wealth permitted the wives of prosperous men to withdraw from productive activity.
~ Amanda Vickery
I'll bet their wives let their cats go out hunting at night like premonitions of future sons.
~ Amber Tamblyn
All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.
~ Rinker Buck
Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Tupi men were allowed to take more than one wife, and were said to be devoted to them all. 'Their entire system of ethics contains only the same two articles: resoluteness in battle and love
~ Alain de Botton