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I did not see the appeal of a wife. We had never had one before. She would not be half as interesting as our buffalo. — Catherynne M Valente

Oh well, I will say here,
knowing each man,
let you find a good wife too,
and love her as hard as you can. — Robert Creeley

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time. — Lee Trevino

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal ... unless she's really attractive. — Rose Macaulay

A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you. — Carol Grace

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. — Nikki Haley

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt! — Joseph Monninger

He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said. — John Connolly

As soon as I arrived, I went to the head inn, held by Mr. Creighton, a silly, despicable man, but privileged in having an excellent wife. — James Hogg

An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife — Nikki Gemmell

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old. — Alva Myrdal

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God. — Jim George

I want to play football for as long as my body will let me, and for as long as I can do a good job at it. And I want a wife. A son. Maybe another kid. — Jaci Burton

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General. — Bob McDonnell

One burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my Hamlet, — Billy Collins

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word. — Greta Garbo

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. — William Wycherley

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. — Derek Kilmer

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole. — Kristi Yamaguchi

There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time. — Catherynne M Valente

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. — Miranda July

As a wife you don't question. By doing as you're told, you're relieved of the responsibility of decisions.[...]It's a blessing. Don't you agree? — Aleatha Romig

If I could cook I wouldn't have to study my ass off at school and I would have tried to find a man to support me as his lovely wife. — Carolina Soto

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person. — Meredith Vieira

I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids. — Arnold Palmer

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance. — Patti Stanger

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish. — Eddie Marsan

As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart. — Shuli Barzilai

Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other human beings to become gods with him. — Meir Soloveichik

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill

As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith. — Billy Graham

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house. — Wilma Scott Heide

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK. — Brian Williams

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. — Aldous Huxley

My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat. — Henny Youngman

I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us. — John Lithgow

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's. — Grover Norquist

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. — Jean De La Bruyere

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does. — Gene Stratton-Porter

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. — Lord Chesterfield

Money can't buy marital happiness, but you can buy a sports car to get away as quickly as you can when your wife is angry with you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you. — Brigham Young

A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. — Mike Huckabee

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought". — Robert Menzies

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese. — Rowan Atkinson

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake. — David Gill

There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city. — Philip K. Dick

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking. — Robert Breault

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved. — Honore De Balzac

Sayeed was a quiet man - not awkward, as Arbeely could be, but possessed of a calm and steady nature that complemented his wife's heartfelt vivacity. — Helene Wecker

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. — Greg Behrendt

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife. — John Gutfreund

I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you
rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good
at fractions.' — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off. — Patricia A. Woertz

Wife credit is like a piece of fish. As soon as you get it, it starts to go bad. — King Of Queens

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat. — Milton Berle

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else. — Suzanne Vega

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. — Charles Farrar Browne

You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife. — Lisa Kleypas

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you. — William Penn

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act. — Michel De Montaigne

Dude, if you stare at me any longer you'll end up as a twisted character in my wife's next novel. — Mantissa Etherbright

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. — Milton Berle

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave ... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness. — Aristotle.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. — Phyllis Schlafly

If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble. — Rodney Dangerfield

There once was a man who was sore
'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door.
Celibacy
is just not for me
Let me in, you cock-teasing whore. — Jake Wizner

He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night. — Eudora Welty

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. — Abigail Van Buren

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures. — Anais Nin

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. — Phyllis Schlafly

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. — Bob Monkhouse

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best — Benjamin Franklin

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was — Samuel Johnson

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration. — Magic Johnson

Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No — Thorne Smith

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife. — Dan Jenkins

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present. — Dani Shapiro

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. — Groucho Marx

Double of wife , mean you a live Double of life. — As I See

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time. — Julia Child

Husband and wife both are works together as two wheels in a vehicle. Here is equality between both. — Kusum Manjeshri

I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife. — Joe Pesci

But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting. — Jojo Moyes

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat. — Ashleigh Slater

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own. — Anita Loos

Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy). — Dada Bhagwan

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life. — Tamara Mellon

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I ... fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out. — Abraham Lincoln

Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And — Douglas Adams

A man never is quite such an abject specimen as his wife makes him look, — D.H. Lawrence

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does. — Ann Landers

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart. — Elizabeth George

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine? — William Cowper

The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy. — Robert A. Heinlein

My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk. — Stephen Livingston