Wife Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• "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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• When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.

  Bernie Siegel

  Team, Acceptance, Boss

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Father, Men, Ties

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.18, tredition

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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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• 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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• I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Thinking, Wish

  "One Man's View of the World". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2013.

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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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• When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said, "I was just whispering in her mouth"

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Kissing, Whispering

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• I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Boat, Mets

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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

  Jimmy Durante

  Inspirational, Home, Men

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• I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife.

  Ray Rice

  Mistake, Apologizing, Made

  "Ray Rice seeks 'second chance' for NFL; admits mistake for not apologizing to Janay". "TODAY" with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 2, 2014.

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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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• 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've got more clothes than my wife.

  Paul Burrell

  Clothes, My Wife

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• In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

  June Allyson

  Real, Perfect, Facts

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

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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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• A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Class, House

  'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Moderation'

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• Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

  Bill Burr

  Men, Gold, Gold Digger

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• My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to
  make that choice.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Reality, Choices

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