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Quotes About Wives

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
~ Moliere
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first divorced me and the second won't.
~ Anonymous
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
~ Jim Bishop
He sank into an apathy of heat and dust and sweat, and joined the morose ten per cent of men in South Fast Asia Command whose wives had let them down.
~ Nevil Shute
He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.
~ Nevil Shute
Male novelists were granted a 'social tradition' in which to operate, Didion discovered 'hard drinkers, bad livers, wives, wars, big fish, Africa, Paris, no second acts.
~ Tracy Daugherty
qué influencia tuvieron Gemma sobre Dante o Helena sobre Descartes, por no hablar de las muchísimas esposas que la historia ignora? ¿Y si todas las obras de Aristóteles en realidad las hubiera escrito su esposa Erpilis? Nunca lo sabremos. La historia, escrita por los maridos, ha condenado a las esposas al anonimato.
~ Umberto Eco
Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any man that had any fancy at all.
~ lamb charles
I first got into writing because I got involved in the production of a magazine for army wives. They were short of copy one day and the editor asked me to write a piece about being an army wife "and make it funny". Good at obeying orders I did as I was told, the piece was a success, I was asked to write a regular piece and slowly it ended up as a book.
~ Catherine Jones
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Look at their hypocrisy. The way they bashed Teddy Kennedy. I always thought that we should throw all the presidential candidates into the Chappaquiddick. With their wives—in cars—drowning. To see which of them would save his wife in order to become the president
~ Giannina Braschi
We are people of peace. We are followers of the Christ who was and is the Prince of Peace. But there are times when we must stand up for right and decency, for freedom and civilization, just as Moroni rallied his people in his day to the defense of their wives, their children, and the cause of liberty.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
~ Samuel Johnson
Lincoln died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in a Ford car.
~ Terry Deary
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
~ Thomas Dekker
did a lot of wine drinking overseas. I used the wine over there the way the jeeps used gasoline. And I kept it up when I got back home. Both of my wives complained about my drinking. I often said that when they put me in jail in 1981 it was not the FBI's intent, but they saved my life. They only have seven days in a week, and by the time I went to jail I was drinking eight. That
~ Charles Brandt
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
~ Ben Horowitz
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
~ Gabrielle Union
Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.
~ Joan Rivers
Wine makes old wives wenches.
~ English proverb
I am a man who refuses to be a hypocrite and I like and must be just, fair and honest; women for me are more important than oxygen because they are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. Women are our companions, our beloved soul mates and the sisters of men
~ Hal Lindsey
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
there were many well-qualified but unhappy wives in Cambridge whose individual talents had been totally disregarded, spurned by a system which refused to acknowledge that wives and mothers might be capable of an intellectual identity of their own.
~ Jane Hawking
I was thinking,' she said. 'About those wives of yours.' 'What about them?' 'Mrs. Llewellyn must be the fourth.' 'Fifth. You're overlooking Bernadine Friganza.' 'It seems rather a lot.' 'That's Hollywood. You sort of drift into it. There's nothing much to do after office hours, so you go out and get married.
~ P. G. Wodehouse