Wife Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Running, Husband, Live Life

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins

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

  Ella T. Grasso

  Women, Needs, Trouble

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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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• 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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• I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Loyalty, Home

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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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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• I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

  Brad Bird

  Sleep, Kids, Way

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• My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Brother, Kids, Gnarly

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• After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Marriage, Beautiful, Men

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• Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

  Jojo Moyes

  Believe, Mouths, Dentist

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• My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

  Bill de Blasio

  Inspiration, Names, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.

  Ian Bogost

  Morning, Husband, Light

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• My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

  Rex Hunt

  Thinking, Whales, Noise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

  Paul Bloom

  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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• I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.

  David Ebershoff

  Mother, Art, Memories

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• I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

  Barry Mann

  Careers, Guts, Knows

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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