Wives Quotes

501 Wives quotes by 393 unique authors

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the… — Mark Twain
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. — Laurence Housman
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. — Mignon McLaughlin
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land,… — Ida Tarbell
If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she… — Tom Ford
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred… — Mark Twain
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. — Benjamin Franklin
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. — Patrick Murray
To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex… — Nirmala Srivastava
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to… — Mark Twain
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the… — Charles Darwin
Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe… — Waite Hoyt
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Woody Allen
Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children. — Jacqueline Novogratz
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. — Kavita Ramdas
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I… — Randall Kennedy
To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal. — Gordon B. Hinckley
In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes,… — Doris Duke
In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group… — Stephen Kinzer
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they… — Eskinder Nega
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The… — Karen Abbott
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness. — Marion Bailey
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for… — Lemuel K. Washburn

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