Wife Quotes by Dave Lombardo, Mark Driscoll, Ted Shackelford, Edward Dyer, Peaches Geldof, Jonathan Safran Foer and many others.
I am mad about my wife.
I am his awfully-wedded wife.
I’m very aware that people find my wife and I’s marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my four kids, and the love I have in my heart for my wife after 18 years of marriage, and the ugliness does fade.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.
I think it’s a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn’t aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.
My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn’t want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn’t have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn’t respect that. We tried to make him independent.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife’s ear.
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It’s the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
I don’t think so. Anyways, I don’t spend money. My wife spends money…sorry wife.
[My wife] has some investments and stuff.
You have family”, Bob said. “You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That’s called family”.
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that’s awesome. You’re going to make a great single mom.
My wife’s beautiful. That’s why I married her. Because I want to see her every day.
A lot of the guilt didn’t help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it’s just, it’s terrible.
I am a wife-made man.
I’m not witch. I’m your wife.
There’s only one thing wrong with my wife’s face – it shows.
I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.
It was Ba’s inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship – while always taking the partner into consideration, meaning acting openly but still discreetly.
A woman once said to me, ‘Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,’ – and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman’s wife.
I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn’t understand why I was so compelled.
I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we’ve been together since I was 22.
When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
I’ll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it’s time to get married, I’m going to be an amazing wife.
I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I’m a romantic guy.
I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life – he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.
My wife is the host of Big Brother. Her name is Julie Chen, and she’ll say, “Da da da,* but first* we do this.” So they mashed together her saying “but first” a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.
I’d thought I’d live with my wife, but I couldn’t find one.
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I’ve been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn’t do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot – I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
My wife told me I’m not as disgusting to her as I used to be.
Fans always ask me to marry them so I’ll have a lot of wives
I have to grow up and be my own man and look after my own family and make sure that my wife and baby are comfortable with what I’m saying, so if that affects them, then it affects me.
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives,
but they think they know all about Stendhal’s or Faulkner‘s.
but they think they know all about Stendhal’s or Faulkner‘s.
We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he’d be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.
I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I’m driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, ‘You’re a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.’
I love my family – wife, daughter, grandchildren. All them are my life. I love them because they know I am the legend but they are my legends because they are my heart.
He asked why and I said, ‘Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit – I don’t get a fat suit?’ He looked at me and said, ‘You mean you don’t have one on?’
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four,” he said, patting his hands together. “I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?” “Yes, Uncle Julian?” “I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.
I don’t have 30 days and 30 nights, to show you why all the hoochies say there’s nothing finer than Scott Steiner, but all I need is one night to have your wife call me for the rest of her life, the big bad booty daddy, so this goes to all my freaks out there, Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, hollar if you hear me.
Good husbands make good wives.
I couldn’t give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.
Will Ferrell and I are teaming up again on a film called Daddy’s Home. In the movie I play a Special-Ops soldier who has just discovered that Will Ferrell’s character is married to my ex-wife and is my children’s stepfather. So, I have to come home and try to win them back and take him out.
I know a good story from a bad story. But when you have a really good story and they make it bad, I’ll say to my wife, “Oh, tonight, I’m going to enjoy watching television because I did great, and wait until you see this.” And then, they put it on and it’s like – oh, that’s not so good. They are fake news.
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I’ll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I’ve kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal’s wife and a freshman in college in the same year.
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
I’ve been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?
The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that’s what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they’re not. Ah, that’s the good stuff!
For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
I can’t throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
Over everything debatable and combatable
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
Over everything debatable and combatable
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I’m too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don’t know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said “let up.”
If you learn life’s lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it’s life that’s pushing.
I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
With my wife it was sex, sex, sex…Yes, three times in 35 years.
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.
A 527 doesn’t have a wife. It doesn’t have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn’t like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It’s the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics.
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
I’ve been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.
Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.
Luck is only my lover, not my wife,” replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. “If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence.” “Tedious bedfellows,” said Sergi.
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
I’m a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I’m much nicer.
A son is a son ’til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
My wife tells me one day, ‘I think you love baseball more than me.’ I say, ‘Well, I guess that’s true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.’
I don’t think I’ll ever meet the perfect woman. I might have to get me one of them mail order women. You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you’re on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.
A man’s best friend is a good wife.
Wives live longer than husbands because they’re not married to women.
I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
I was being flirted with for ‘Modern Family,’ which my wife still hasn’t let me live down, but it’s one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn’t be any more perfect. It wouldn’t have been right for me, and I wouldn’t have been right for it.
[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da’s mother has added the following note to this section; ‘Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man’s part is not his wife’s concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.
It’s funny – my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I’m always working and thinking about my books.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you’re in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
My husband’s a lawyer, and I lived a lawyer’s wife’s life.
When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife’s hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.
If you don’t have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, “What am I gonna do?” But my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. And he had already told me “Whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife.”
I miss my wife’s cooking – as often as I can.
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.
My wife assures me she didn’t sleep with Tiger Woods, but how can I believe her?
Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth. I’ll never start another company. I’ll never work long hours again. At this point in my life, I only answer to God, my wife, and my kids. Everything else is secondary – especially the expectations of strangers.
DDP, while your in the hospital screaming in pain, your wife will be on her back screaming my name!
You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.
a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
Look after your wife; never mind yourself–she’ll look after you.
But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.
I knew ‘Rakta Charitra’ would be a story between two men, Suriya and Vivek Oberoi. I had no problem when Ram Gopal Varma told me that I had only a small role as Suriya’s wife who is supportive of his decisions.
I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and – you know, and now we’re going in there every other day baptizing a kid.
The way I look at – speaking as a woman – I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It’s fantastic. They think she’s absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech… And people get on her case.
A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, ‘I wish my husband‘s wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.’ That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.
A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women’s breast milk. My wife’s breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I’m like, well, maybe it’s making my child fireproof.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we’d be in a lot of trouble.
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it’s difficult to say no.
When I received the call saying: ‘Bruno, you have the chance of moving to Manchester‘ I called my wife, my brother, my sister, my mother and just started crying. But I was crying through happiness.
My wife says in Richard Stark‘s world, the honest citizens are goofy. Okay, they are. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but because he’s outside his own world, it sort of freed up the environment around him to be a little more looser and goofier.
What’s for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
I think I’m a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.
War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.
I love my kids, I’m a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that’s that.
I don’t want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect.
As the husband is, the wife is.
One man’s folly is another man‘s wife.
The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
… a business career for a woman and her need for a woman’s life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.
[John’s Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune.
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife’s lover.
Now, it’s true I married my wife for her looks… but not the ones she’s been givin’ me lately.
My three years at Canterbury Christ Church University was the only time in my life I had my own room – first I shared with my brothers and later with my wife Lou.
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
One is bound to one’s wife, but has a bond to one’s mistress.
I have a great wife and it’s very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she’s happy.
I’d love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I’d love to direct. One day. I’m learning a lot on the set of ‘The Good Wife.’
Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he’s going to put it on his wife’s Gold Card.
With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.
My kids and wife love Chicago, especially the kids.
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.
My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.
All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they’re going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy–all at once. After all, we’re not superwomen.
He was really into family… He’d never come on the road with me on the weekends ’cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.
We don’t like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don’t imply that my wife was a shikse.
You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
I hate being away even for a day. But I’m happiest when I’m working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.
It’s the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that’s what you shoot for! To hell with that.
Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.
Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.
Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: ‘Are you better off than you were four wives ago?’
If you think ‘loading the dishwasher‘ means ‘getting your wife drunk‘, you might be a redneck
I’ll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.
As a guy I never liked being told to call, which my wife really never does, and that’s why I call her as often as I do.
I said to the president’s wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.
You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she’s met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?
when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I’m going to take everything with me because I don’t want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.
I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.
I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.
That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, ‘She is the heavyweight champion of my life.” Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.
It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife’s toilet water.
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don’t usually say “My job, my job, my job”. It’s really true. It’s usually about your family.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I’m home, I work very hard to be Todd’s wife and Jade‘s mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
I’m also the father of three beautiful children and I’ve been married to my wife for 18 years, and we’ve been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.
I’m a mom first. That’s all I really care about – being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, “what, you can’t think of anybody either?”
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.
Media failed to notice that not one member of Donald’s family, apart from his children, his son-in-law and his current wife said a word of support of him during the entire campaign.
This city has so many beautiful women. I fall in love like every ten minutes, I’m sitting on the subway, I’m like, “There’s my wife… there she is – oh, she’s getting off. All right, there’s the woman – all right, that’s a man.”
I felt like – like I don’t know what. Like this wasn’t real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire‘s wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. – Jacob
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
My wife is so hot so I don’t care it I lose every stage of the 2015 Tour to Kittle. Yea, he’s got cool hair but my wife is super hot.
Definitely my wife and my kid [are my biggest inspiration].
My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.
Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, “I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. ”
My wife said to me ‘I hope you win… but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don’t think it makes up for never saying it when we’re alone.
It’s hard making a woman your wife when you’ve been humpin married women for most of your life
[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, ‘an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie’s husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.
Christie’s husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
In my case what happened is that within about two weeks of beginning meditation, the anger already started to go away. My wife came to me and said, “What’s going on?” and I said, “What are you talking about?” To which she replied, “This anger, where did it go?” I didn’t even realize that my anger had been going away.
My wife is been extremely supportive and when doubt creeps in, she’s there pushing me along. She’s helped me move up here, get all of my furniture and brought all my groceries. That’s what marriage is about: supporting each other and helping each other reach our fullest potential.
You’re asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, ‘So, what’s your next wife going to be like?’ And I’m like, ‘What?’
I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.
The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.
I’m a family guy, I’ve got a beautiful wife, a beautiful son, and I couldn’t be happier.
Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson‘s wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife
When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
In my life as a wife and mother, I’m always conscious of my desire to be present.
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
I have worked long and hard to try to reduce my debts, and I am devastated that it came to this conclusion. I now intend to focus on the remaining dates of the Westlife tour and my commitments to the band before looking to rebuild a future for my wife, my three children and myself.
Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I’d died. I’ve been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife – I’ve had a few so it’s hard to pinpoint which one – but who knows for sure?
I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure – the costly, exacting mistress.
My wife Jennifer‘s family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever – her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother – so, there’s certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.
The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that’s when they stop arguing.
In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear.
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear.
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I’m so happy with, she’s been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I’ve been always very influenced by Japan. Since I guess the 70’s or so. I’ve come to appreciate so much of their culture.
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one’s wife’s lover in one’s socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.
If my wife hears one more report that I’m joining Hillary‘s campaign I’m going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program.
Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he’s running for president. Before he announced he’s running, his wife went on Facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. Because if a Facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake.
One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
I haven’t been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
As a believer, the Lord is growing me every single day. I’m married and I’m really grateful for my wife. The Lord has been using her to make me more like Jesus. I have a son and I’m really grateful for that. I’m grateful for what the Lord is doing in my life.
I’m working when I’m fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.
He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t.
[conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way:] With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
I came home, the car was in the dining room. “How did you get the car in here?” “Easy, I took a left at the kitchen.”
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.
I have the best wife and six wonderful children. And I’m proud to report that my future will always be bright with the family that I have.
The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they’re indicted.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren’t supposed to be happy; they’re supposed to do well.
The reason they’re called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled – it’s just the opposite!
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn’t necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.
If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.
By doing the comedy you don’t get heckled by your own wife.
The second time around I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.
I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
I’m an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she’s a Florida State alum, so I wouldn’t have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we’re weird.
Well, it’s a tie and jacket and I just don’t travel with one, … You’re not going to put a coat and tie on me for dinner. I’m just being honest. Plus, the wives can’t go and I’d rather see the wives be able to go instead of just all the guys. That makes it fun.
My wife is like, You finally get your own TV show, you can have any kind of car you want and you get a darned truck. But my brother and I have the same kind of truck now.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
My wife’s brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you’ll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.
If somebody said my wife’s not beautiful, I’d go, she is. I wouldn’t say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know.
What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
There isn’t a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
I can’t stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.
We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.
My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: ‘Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn’t.’ I’ve got a life that really matters to me, and that’s because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.
What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.
I don’t have kids. Maybe that’s kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.
Anybody can become a widow. There aren’t any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn’t require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.
Since I’m a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
I’m very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.
My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.
Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he’s in a place where I wouldn’t have expected him to be – taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend’s wife.
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they’re bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he’s not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he’s completely that way.
My wife is much more well known than I am.
It’s a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That’s beautiful to me.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.
My wife.” “By what name is she called, Kincaid?” “Mine.
I’ve got more clothes than my wife.
My wife has to be the worst cook. I’ve got the only dog who begs for alka-seltzer.
My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.
It wasn’t a good idea to work on ‘Naked’ in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.
I can assure you that my wife and I – every penny of income we’ve ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.
If only I had a wife!” I used to think, “who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.
The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease.
My muse is my wife. It’s not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
I won’t talk about someone’s mother. I won’t talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that.
You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.
… you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
I’m sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
They say that dog is man’s best friend, and I think it’s true. My dog does a lot of the same stuff my best friend does, like drool on my couch, mooch my food and hump my wife.
the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our “we-ness,” our “us-ness.”
Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife.
My wife loves to shop at Bloomingdale’s. I bring her mail there twice a week.
You never know when it will be the last time you’ll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there’s always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you’d never stop grieving.
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
I know I’m honest and dependable, usually. I know I’m always dependable for my wife. I’m always at home and I’m always there to help.
I announced my retirement from international cricket in May 2018 because I wanted to reduce my workload and spend more time with my wife and young sons. Some have insisted I was motivated purely by money. They are wrong.
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband’s infidelities.
We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.
I was a very good friend of Rajiv Gandhi, and I had affection for Sonia as his wife.
It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
I am so blessed. I have an incredible wife, children I adore; I’m a very happy man. I’ve got a great mom and dad and brothers and sisters and stuff, so I’ve always been happy. And I never stop smiling.
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss
It has been rumored that “Psycho” is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.
There are also many things my wife can’t stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.
John Walker, while he was in Afghanistan, told people his goal was to have four wives. … Do we need any further proof that this guy is out of his mind? Four wives? That’s how al Qaeda gets you to become a suicide bomber.
As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It’s a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she’s feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It’s kind of the way twins have their own thing.
If you’re into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into ‘The Good Wife.’ If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out ‘The Walking Dead.’ Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.
Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, “involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
Most of us spend our lives convinced that there’s something missing: “If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different…. If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay.”
My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I’d be right back living on the Upper West Side.
Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she’s amazing.
It’s with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can’t relocate. I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.
Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I’m feeling just a little “extra important.”
There was a law in Connecticut – I believe it is still formally unrepealed – making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father’s house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband’s is almost a cloister.
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one’s decency, can be called clothes. … Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife’s body.
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity–a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
Women–wives and mothers–are the same everywhere.
That’s how it all started, when I met my wife. My music career, even though I started when I was 16, it never really started till I was like 30, when I started singing and writing my own songs, and that’s when it really took off. But prior to that, I was just doing a bunch of covers.
I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that’s really uncomfortable. Of course when you’re a candidate’s wife and when you’re first lady and the first African-American first lady to boot, that is very, very hard to do.
My wife doesn’t like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me – not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife.
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son’s new wife.
There’s something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi’s and we’re all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.
Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say ‘go for help.’
A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you’ll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you’re taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.
People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.
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 because they were strangers to it!
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
I’m a family man. I have a daughter and a wife, and I spend more time on the road with my wrestling family than I do with my actual household and my immediate family.
In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it’s not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting it as in interpreting what my wife wants me to do. Only the stakes are even higher!
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
I was on the board of Andre Agassi’s foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that’s who I am.
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I’ve had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden – where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.
… happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You’ve got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.
I haven’t got a car or a house. I’ve got a wife, but I didn’t pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She’s here with a knife at my throat!
I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
Christmas, my child, is love in action.” ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.
My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.
I will admit the best sex I’ve ever had has been with my wife.
When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people’s.
You’ll often find that it’s not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that’s stopping you. It’s you. Get out of your own way.
You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.
My wife Martha used to call me Ol’ Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I’m in torture, when in truth, I’m in ecstasy. I don’t do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
Estimated from a wife’s experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.
The two most frightening words in Washington are ‘bipartisan consensus.’ Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day’s writing. If you can’t start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they’re trying to fill by performing. I’m anxious to keep creating, but I’m not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.
I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.
A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
He gambled all his life, he’s got 27 children, yet he’s never had a wife.
My first wife is always the stage.
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.
If you’re concentrating on climbing , you can’t be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
I’m at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler‘s Wife)
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts В— making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint В— well, a saint who curses.
My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I’m like, “Eh, I made it this far.”
What would possess a family where’s there’s a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That’s just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.
A wife’s a worry, a non-wife’s even worse.
I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, ‘You cannot bring him.’ but I think that I’ve done enough to shatter the image.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
Little Britain… ever since it first came on… I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her.
I know I can still play, but it’s like I told my wife, I’m just tired mentally. I’m just tired.
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
Some perfect wife I am. I’ve been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can’t boil an egg.
I crave fit disposition for my wife;
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.
A lot of people look for you to change. Everything has stayed the same. Financially, this is God’s money, and my wife and I are just stewards of it.
I always think of the future. I think that’s how I can work happily now. And I always think ‘where would I be living if I married a Korean person?’ I work hard now for my future, my future wife and family.
My wife lost all her credit cards, but I’m not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!
As our country bled . . . its leader’s wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.
It’s one thing to reject the idea that it’s a man’s job to bring home all the bacon; it’s another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
I’m Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We’re very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.
My wife always asks me why I don’t make the bed. And I respond with the same reason why I don’t tie my shoes after I take them off.
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.
I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn’t be involved with anyone for a long time – if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped – and it’s a big jaw to drop.
We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ’s sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills.
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
Wives should be kissed – not heard.
I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think – I think it’s because the Internet. I think they’re exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don’t hear all the time in art communities.
In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I’m black. I’m a black woman. I’m a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.
They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies.
I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn’t professional.
I have sacrificed for the Republic allВ that man holds dear – my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really – the next verse goes on: “husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church.”
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It’s an old wives’ tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.
It’s hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I’m going to the office, and it’s the beach.
You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that’s what me and my wife have. We don’t need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it’s important to educate the kids with that.
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 sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He’s an illustrator of children’s books.
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.
Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.
I’m not interested in being a wife. I’m interested in being an empress.
When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe… just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
The predictable thing about ‘The Good Wife’ is how unpredictable ‘The Good Wife’ is.
The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well – prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level.
My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.
I’ll do anything for my wife, it’s turning out.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, ‘What makes me come alive?’ Because what the world – a wife, a child – needs is men who have come alive.
I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
It’s not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I’m the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.
Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you’re married, it’s actually located in your wife’s brain.
Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.
People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives – or their jobs. Well, if that’s really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse’s or partner’s. There is a plan for everyone.
Happy is that family where both the husband and wife are mutual members of Christ’s body
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
According to the Bible, the marriage act is more than a physical act. It is an act of sharing. It is an act of communion. It is an act of total self-giving wherein the husband gives himself completely to the wife, and the wife gives herself to the husband in such a way that the two actually become one flesh.
My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat.
My ex-wife, she really didn’t like the material that I did. And that’s something I regret, that I wasn’t more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn’t ask. So that’s how that goes.
I tell ya, my wife, we get along good cause we have our own arrangement. I mean, one night a week I go out with the boys and one night a week, she goes out with the boys.
My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn’t exist.
It’s still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it’s sometimes hard work living with her.
As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.
I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask ‘How do I reload this thing’.
Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country–no interests staked in public weal–no liabilities in common peril–no partnership in a nation‘s guilt and shame?
Why don’t you go home to your wife? Better yet, I’ll go home to
your wife, and outside of the improvement, she won’t notice any
difference.
your wife, and outside of the improvement, she won’t notice any
difference.
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
He tells old wives’ tales much to the point.
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.
Well the beauty of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men – the sons, the fathers, the husbands – because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else’s. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah!
Prince William’s pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, ‘Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.’
There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
I remember my wife in white.’ It just made people weep to hear it…Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn’t matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.
I don’t want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.
I’m not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show ‘Portlandia.’ My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we’re often participants.
I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There’s a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there’s Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.
I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, ‘This woman’s amazing.’ I’m happy that I’m with her. She’s amazing, and I’d think the same of her even if she wasn’t with me – she’s just amazing.
My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.
That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.
If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn’t go to hell–in fact, I couldn’t go to hell if I wanted to.
My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog’s bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.
Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.
Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.
Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward “culture” and away from his “materialistic” preoccupations.
I support myself. My wife and I together – it’s all our household. I’m really proud of that.
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, “This isn’t working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me.” Then I said, “No, I’ll go on.”
My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.
I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
I’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
I’m something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.
