When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
~By Queen Victoria ~
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
~By Mike Tyson ~
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
~By Maurice Gibb ~
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
~By Charles Ives ~
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
~By Germaine Greer ~
I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
~By Ja Rule ~
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
~By Edward Burnett Tylor ~
The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart.
~By Tommy Bond ~
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
~By Will Durant ~
The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
~By Lauren Graham ~
We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
~By Tom Araya ~
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
~By John Milius ~
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
~By Woody Allen ~
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
~By Helmut Newton ~
I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.
~By Linda Evans ~
Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
~By Ben Folds ~
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
~By Prince Philip ~
I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.
~By Reba McEntire ~
I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
~By Marla Maples ~
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.
~By Paul Reiser ~
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
~By John James Audubon ~
I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
~By Brad Bird ~
The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
~By Richard Armour ~
If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?
~By Laura Ingraham ~
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
My wife thinks I'm completely mad.
~By Malcolm Williamson ~
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
~By Jessica Lange ~
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
~By Thomas Moore ~
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
~By Douglass North ~
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.
~By Michael Chabon ~
I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.
~By Ernie Wise ~
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
~By Jimmy Durante ~
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
~By John Langhorne ~
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
~By John Hewson ~
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
~By Mary Astell ~
Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
~By Anne Northup ~
My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.
~By George Andrew Olah ~
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.
~By Marcia Cross ~
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
~By Mark Rylance ~
Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
~By Patsy Cline ~
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
~By Warren Jeffs ~
I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
~By Tony Curtis ~
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
~By Jay Leno ~
I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.
~By Glenn Close ~
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
~By Bruce Jay Friedman ~
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
~By Taryn Manning ~
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.
~By Gisele Bundchen ~
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
~By William Westmoreland ~
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.
~By Christopher Gist ~
I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
~By Richard Pryor ~
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
~By Arthur Hiller ~
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.
~By Maurice Gibb ~
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
~By Will Adams ~
We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.
~By Darius Rucker ~
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.
~By David Hasselhoff ~
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
~By William Blake ~
If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.
~By Chris Daughtry ~
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
~By Tony Blair ~
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
~By Joseph Cook ~
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.
~By Evan Dando ~
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
~By Franz Schubert ~
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
~By Shimon Peres ~
I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
~By Earl Scruggs ~
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
~By Ben Shahn ~
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
~By Don Adams ~
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