Wife Quotes - Page 5

• I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

  Sean Connery

  Speaks French, Fluent, Speak

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• I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

  Anton Chekhov

  Husband, Moon, Sky

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

  W. C. Fields

  Needs, Splits, Woods

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• From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

  "Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, 1843.

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• After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Black

  "One-line genius" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Spring, Women

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

  Don Epperson

  Silly, Men, Games

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• I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marriage, Single, Wedding

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• I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Anniversary, Wedding, Quality

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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, Greek

  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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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• One man's folly is another man's wife.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Men

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

  Billy Sunday

  Marriage, Trying, Doe

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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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• Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

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• A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

  John Steinbeck

  Thank You, Children, Would Be

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• What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Character, Men

  'Phineas Redux' (1874) ch. 3

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• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Character, Men

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Dream, Novelists

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Cute, Marriage

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• When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Funny Marriage, Literature

  "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl".

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• 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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