Wife Quotes - Page 21

• It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Ideas, Brilliant

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Encouragement, Pain

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• The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Children, Husband

  "Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

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• It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

  George Farquhar

  Power, Men, Should

  George Farquhar, Arthur Murphy, George sen Colman, David Garrick (1817). “Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.64

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• When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Aunt, Remembrance

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• "In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

  Lewis Carroll

  Father, Talking, Law

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 5 (1865)

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• We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."

  Joan Didion

  Husband, Self, Psychosis

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• Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

  Dave Willis

  Daughter, Children, Husband

  Dave Willis (2013). “iVow: Secrets to a Stronger Marriage”, p.62, BookBaby

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• Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mean, Son, Thinking

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• Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

  James L. Brooks

  Dog, Hero, Hard Times

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• I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

  David Jason

  Dog, Nice, Home

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• The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Sleep, Heart, Airplane

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• As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

  Adam Carolla

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Benign, My Wife

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• A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

  Aristotle

  Quality, Female, Slave

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• Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."

  Vicki Donlan

  Baby, Smart, Work

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

  Jimmy Durante

  Inspirational, Home, Men

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• If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life, And I had to start a new one with just my children and my wife, I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today, 'Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.

  Lee Greenwood

  Stars, Children, Lucky

  Lee Greenwood (1992). “God bless the U.S.A. gift book”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

  Niecy Nash

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

  Joseph Cotten

  Jealous, Kissing, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

  George W. Bush

  Sound, Firsts, Patient

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• I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

  John Steinbeck

  Spiritual, Sweet, Passion

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• The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Kids, Pneumonia, Years

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• Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1559

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• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Fate

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