Wives Quotes · Page 7

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— H. L. Mencken

I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.

— Alexander III of Russia

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

— Anton Chekhov

Wives are people who think it's against the law not to answer the phone when it rings.

— Rita Rudner

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity,…

— Jean Giraudoux

“And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have…

— D. H. Lawrence

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

— Anonymous

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands…

— Pope Leo XIII

“Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates…

— Kishore Bansal

“I wish I had five wives, one for each day of the workweek. This would leave me the weekends to enjoy time…

— Jarod Kintz

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I read last year 4,153,237 ppl got married. I thought well shouldn't that be an even number? *Smacked myself in tha face*…

— Ranger Fan 2011

“So did I get his travel plans like those controlling wives I know? I didn’t. Clearly, I should have. Those women obviously…

— Liz Fenton

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, (both) the beloved and the…

— Bible

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a…

— Bonnie Bedelia

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of…

— Pam Brown

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was…

— Muriel Spark

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside…

— Philippa Gregory

For older actresses, the story is still the same. They are either subservient wives taking care of their husbands - like that…

— Supriya Pathak

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

— John Barrymore

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

— Moliere

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

— Kenneth Hutchin

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

— Karen Valenstein

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

The men always tell me off for giving their wives too many ideas that end up costing them a lot of money.

— George Clarke

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

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Green Monk

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

— Laird Hamilton

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

— Wally Schirra

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

— Joan Rivers

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

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

— Gianluca Vialli