Wife Quotes - page 3

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! (William Blake)
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. View quote
Heinrich Heine
My wife has a whim of iron. View quote
Oliver Herford
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. View quote
Voltaire
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. (Honoré de Balzac)
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste Was she not fair Was she not fruitful' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.' View quote
Plutarch
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. View quote
Maurice Gibb
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. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. View quote
Otto Rank
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. View quote
David McCallum
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want! View quote
Jacques Pepin
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. View quote
Groucho Marx
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. (Mohamed ElBaradei)
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. View quote
O. Henry
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her. View quote
David Ogilvy
Here lies my wife here let her lie Now she's at rest, and so am I. View quote
John Dryden
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