Wife Quotes - Page 25

• Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Children, Perfect, Maids

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• The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Doors, Eggs, Done

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.48

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• I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Reading, Men, White Man

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• I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

  Charb

  Kids, Car, Knees

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• MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Society, Noblemen

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.730, Library of America

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• Trust me, lots of guys bring women up to their rooms when their wives are aren't there and get massages, it happens all the time. It means 'nothing'.

  Triple H

  Mean, Wwe, Guy

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• I have been to rehab nine times. They were high dollar and some of the best ones around. Vince has picked up the tab the last couple of times. If you ever work or worked for WWE, if you ever need help, he will give it to you. He is really cool. Thanks to Vince, his wife Linda, Stephanie, Shane and Paul. Thank you for helping me. It's hard to ask for help. It's even harder to accept it, when people offer it.

  Scott Hall

  Couple, Wwe, People

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• Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.

  Alex Riley

  Monday, Kids, Night

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• Ahh, Otunga. I hope you keep depending on your wife. I hope she keeps making movies because while she's walking the red carpet, you're gonna be walking the unemployment line.

  Edge

  Wwe, Unemployment, Lines

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• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

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• [conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way:] With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Men, Tonight

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

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• I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.

  James Crumley

  Girl, Hard Work, Men

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.40, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Failure, Example

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• In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Marriage, Running, Men

  Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature "Amateurs" (1974)

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• One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Marriage, Secret, Curiosity

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Husband, Fans, Woody

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• A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

  Manal al-Sharif

  Mother, Children, Husband

  "Women and the Reality of the Arab Spring: Writing New Constitutions, Leaving Out Women’s Rights" by Vivian Norris, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Husband, Stories

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

  Brendan Behan

  Marriage, Husband, Blessing

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• There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Men And Women, Trouble

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• ... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Marriage, Husband, Mistress

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.424, 谷月社

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• Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Guarantees, Affection

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.91, Penguin

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• A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Careers, Enemy

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• There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

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