Wives Quotes · Page 8

Wickets are like wives, you never know which way they will turn!

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

— Rod Stewart

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

— H. L. Mencken

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

— William Shakespeare

Husbands should not have to earn respect anymore than wives should have to earn love.

— Anonymous

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

— Edward Bellamy

Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The make-up on 'Footballers' Wives' is unbelievable - there's loads of fake tan.

— Laila Rouass

It's interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a…

— Winona Ryder

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

— Anonymous

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home…

— Stephanie Coontz

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

— Louisa May Alcott

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my…

— Eskinder Nega

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in…

— Kate Braverman

“But it was strange—generation after generation these quiet women with their demure bearing and fearless intelligence seemed to make the lasting wives.…

— James A. Michener

When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you…

— George Foreman

Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their…

— Orson Pratt

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other…

— Héloïse

I call my backup singers my sister wives. To me, they are my best friends. We are all super close. It's kind…

— Alex Winston

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

— Joan Rivers

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

— Wally Schirra

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

— Laird Hamilton

Wives don't need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider - God!!

— Nick Vujicic

I played for four clubs during my career and for me it was like having four wives.

— Gianluca Vialli

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

— Ovid

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's a place for corporate wives, but there's no place for corporate husbands.

— Karen Valenstein

The wife who always insists on the last word often has it.

— Kenneth Hutchin

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

— Lord Byron

“Men are highly attracted to smiles. That includes your husband.”

— Anonymous

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

— Moliere

Ladies I'm not afraid of commitment, ask my 5 ex-wives.

— Green Monk

The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted.

— Kin Hubbard

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

— Sarah Brightman

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette