Wives Quotes

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. (Marilyn Monroe)

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Mel Brooks

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Charlie Sheen

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Siegfried Sassoon

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Albert Einstein

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dick Van Dyke

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Abigail Van Buren

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

Sacha Guitry

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. (Francis Bacon)

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Helen Rowland

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Patrick Murray

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Paul

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Ann Rule

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Mary Calderone

Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet!

Groucho Marx

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Groucho Marx

Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.

Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession . . .

Thomas Hardy

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. (Raymond Chandler)

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

Louisa May Alcott

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.

Brigham Young

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire to our sons, ambition but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison

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