Wife Quotes - Page 10

• I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

  Woody Allen

  Kissing, Want, French Kiss

  "Woody Allen urges US to french kiss, preferably in France", www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

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• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• Man and wife make one fool.

  Ben Jonson

  Marriage, Men, Fool

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, act 1, sc.1.

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• Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.

  Lenny Bruce

  Marriage, Believe, Love You

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• When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Surprise, Used

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• Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Women, Affair

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• Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in the late hours of his eighteenth beer. They want a family that is so much fun and is so smart that they look forward to Thanksgiving rather than regarding it with a shudder. That's the glitter part. The stable part is, obviously, they don't want to be one bead on a long necklace of wives. They want, just like men, fun, love, fame, money and power. And equal pay for equal work.

  Carolyn See

  Fun, Women, Smart

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• Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, World, Opinion

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• A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

  J. B. Priestley

  Husband, Women, Trying

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• Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

  Charles Lamb

  Women, Maids, Lovable

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• The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Rooms, Fool

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Husband, Women, Lying

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• Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

  J. Paul Getty

  Women, Jealous, Aversion

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• There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

  Cyril Connolly

  Women, Lovers, Fury

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• I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

  Ella T. Grasso

  Women, Needs, Trouble

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• To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Marriage, Girl, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.76, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

  Robert Wagner

  Girl, Real, Play

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• Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

  James Van Der Beek

  Morning, Dad, War

  James Van Der Beek @vanderjames, twitter.com. March 14, 2012.

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• A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

  Sam Ewing

  Flower, Men, Gold

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• My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Water, Stupidity

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• Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.

  Keith Olbermann

  War, Lying, Men

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• Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.

  Jerry Lawler

  Kings, Husband, Champion

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• THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife

  Emilie Schindler

  Men, Names, Drs

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• I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

  Clifford Sifton

  Children, Thinking, Sheep

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• And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Thinking, Forget, Good Thoughts

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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