Children Quote by Anne Korkeakivi

“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a normal lifetime.”

— John Steinbeck

“And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when ashore, it…

— Patrick O'Brian

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

— Moliere

“Husbands take photographs of their wives and children in front of a fountain and call out to the boys who rush back and forth,…

— Jennifer Klinec

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?”

— Anne Tyler

It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

— Jodi Kantor

“I can say in all candor that husbands need wives, and if their wives are simply the “mothers of their children”, they’re likely to…

— Richard E. Greenberg

“When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives…

— Dale Carnegie

“Q: Why is it that after they get married, a husband and wife are like two sides of a coin? A: Because although they…

— Various

“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still…

— Jeffrey Eugenides