Wife Quotes - Page 9

• It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Years, Way, Separation

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• Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.

  Sidney Wood

  Divorce, Fighting, Play

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• When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

  Johnny Pesky

  Baseball, Sleep, Beer

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• Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.

  Simon Neil

  Fall, Men, Laughing

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• When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

  Samuel Johnson

  Jealousy, Husband, Past

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• If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Children, Home

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• A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

  Lucille Kallen

  Pain, Home, Men

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• To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

  Walter Tracy

  Design, Married, Typography

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• An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

  Ogden Nash

  Learning, Men, Lucky

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• We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

  Dave Lombardo

  Baby, Pregnancy, Son

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• But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

  Neil LaBute

  Pregnancy, Character, Responsibility

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• Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sorry

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• I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

  Willie Geist

  Birthday, Daughter, Cutting

  "Willie Geist 'devastated': His fave German chocolate cake isn't German!" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

  Anne Grant

  Cheating, Cheated

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• Man and wife make one fool.

  Ben Jonson

  Marriage, Men, Fool

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, act 1, sc.1.

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• A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Years

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• I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Divorce, Should Have

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• Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

  Dave Mordal

  Funny, Divorce, Addiction

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• It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  Eva Longoria

  Taken, Divorce, Thinking

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• In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Divorce, Law

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• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  Ed Gillespie

  Running, Congress, Wells

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• Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who is preventing? You just have to tell a lie and there is no mess - and surrender to the powerful and beautiful woman. But remember, the moment a man surrenders to a woman he loses dignity in her eyes. She starts looking here and there for someone who has the guts not to surrender.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Beautiful, Powerful

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• 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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• The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond. Relationship comes from that word respond. If you have any image of your wife or husband, you cannot respond, and hence relate, to the truth of the person. And we all go on carrying images.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Beautiful, Husband

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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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