Wives Quotes

501 Wives quotes by 393 unique authors

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining… — Bertrand Russell
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. — Siegfried Sassoon
I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars. — Andres Segovia
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. — William Shakespeare
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly… — Charlie Sheen
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their… — Elizabeth Taylor
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. — Emma Thompson
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most… — Lewis Thomas
My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time. — Lee Trevino
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands… — Lee Trevino
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields,… — Tina Turner
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of… — Gabrielle Union
I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives… — Iyanla Vanzant
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the… — Adam Yauch
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to. — Henny Youngman
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives… — Clara Zetkin
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock… — Dorothy Parker
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and… — Raymond Chandler
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — Jane Austen
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca,… — Allen Ginsberg
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with… — Charles Lamb

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