Wife Quotes - Page 29

• A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

  Joyce Cary

  Mother, Children, Father

  Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

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• I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

  Stevie Smith

  Marriage, Girl, Dream

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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• My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

  Albrecht Durer

  Father, Support, Resources

  "Albrecht Durer: His life and work". Book by Marcel Brion, 1960.

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• My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

  Stephen Bayley

  Cooking, Males, Dinner

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• Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

  John Larroquette

  Thinking, Boys, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Marriage, Beautiful, Love Is

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  Halle Berry

  Men, Needs, Taste

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

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• The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Mother, Animal, Hands

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• And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Jobs, Children, Blessed

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• My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Income, Liberation

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• I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

  Bryan Ferry

  Tokyo, Lennon, Mets

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• I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Talking, Knives

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• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Opportunity, Long

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• I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Computer, Clue

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• I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Big Families, Four

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• My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Baby, Thinking, Gone

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• I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

  Bill Pullman

  Brother, Operations, Backbone

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Breathing, Parent

  "Matt Damon Reveals His Insecurities". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 17, 2011.

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• I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

  Darius Rucker

  Strong Women, Home, People

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

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• When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is inside. She's beautiful inside; she loves music like I do. That's the thing that brought us together and probably keeps us together.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Beautiful, Together, Music Love

  "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.

  Joe Pesci

  Men, Three, Firsts

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• When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

  Michael Symon

  Years, Devil, Vegetarian

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• I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.

  Michael Symon

  Years, Foundation, Lucky

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• Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

  Steve Carell

  Talking, Why Now, Staring

  "Steve Carell learns to love his first time". www.today.com. August 17, 2005.

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• There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

  Julian Baggini

  Love You, Trying, Example

  "Can happiness be measured?". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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