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Wife Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's…
- UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
- PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that…
- MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
- Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of…
- DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.…
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- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. — Christian Bale
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams