Good Wife Quotes - Page 2

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

  Marya Mannes

  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.

  Amy Koppelman

  Mom, Writing, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Men, Wife

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.205

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• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  Ace Frehley

  Finding The One, Wife, Trying

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• If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Breakup, Two

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ivy, Wife, Ruins

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• Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Witty

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• I never intended on moving to 'The Good Wife' permanently, but in terms of a next move and something to do to make myself feel good, this was a great opportunity.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Moving, Opportunity, Next Move

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• A good wife maketh a good husband.

  John Heywood

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.88

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• I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

  Peaches Geldof

  Mother, Wife, Want

  "Peaches Geldof obituary" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2014.

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• A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Strong, Wife, Enough

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

  Jimmy Durante

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

  Joyce Banda

  Husband, Mean, Wife

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• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

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• I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

  Jimmy Carter

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

  John Wilmot

  Marriage, Wife, Life Is

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• The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'

  Lara Pulver

  Tv Shows, Feet, Wife

  "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

  Gary Player

  Dog, Tired, Golf

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• A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Winning, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.

  Heidi Klum

  Mom, Years, People

  "Celeb New Year's Resolutions for 2011: Amy Poehler, Ryan Seacrest, Heidi Klum and more". www.mcall.com. January 05, 2011.

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• Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Smart, Heart, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.273

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Loyalty, Husband, Believe

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Wife, Earth, Human Life

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