Children Quote by William Butler Yeats

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen…

— William Butler Yeats

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

— Laird Hamilton

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

— Jean de la Bruyere

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened…

— Hortense Odlum

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

— Hermann Graf Keyserling

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish…

— Ernestine Rose

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often…

— William McFee

All men know their children mean more than life.

— Euripides

I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than…

— Andre The Giant

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Men, in general, are but great children.

— Napoleon Bonaparte