Wives Quotes

501 Wives quotes by 393 unique authors

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. — Thomas Dekker
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I.… — Marta Kristen
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift! — Nigel Dennis
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Since many government-paid propagandists insinuate that we (HDZ) are in fact agents of (the Yugoslav secret services) UDBA and KOS, and point out that many… — Franjo Tudjman
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does… — Michel De Montaigne
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
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife — Thomas Fuller
How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands… — Thomas Szas
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies… — Marilyn Monroe
Supporting the troops means paying attention to their needs both in the field and at home. It means understanding their lives both as warriors fighting… — Senator John Kerry
Men shall have the preeminence above women, because of those advantages wherein God hath caused the one of them to excel the other, and for… — Quran
Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no… — Muriel Spark
There's a place for corporate wives, but there's no place for corporate husbands. — Unknown Author
Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have… — Marcus Aurelius
We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily bodys needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians… — Demosthenes
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land… — Bible
Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine… — Bible
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which… — Bible
The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes — Dorothea Dix
This opportunity shall not come again! I say to you, O my body, listen to my advice! You slander, and then praise others; you indulge… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Heaven give you many, many merry days! - from The Merry Wives of Windsor — William Shakespeare
Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as… — Tom Robbins
Girlfriends have a come hither look. Wives have a hitherto look. — Max Pallenberg

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