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Good husbands make good wives. — Martha Finley

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones ... — Patricia Wentworth

Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision. — Shannon L. Alder

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours. — Vincent Massey

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. — Wallace Stegner

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all. — Pinki Virani

Happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot

I abhor men who cheat on their wives and despise women who sleep with married men. — Lisa Lim

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands. — John McAfee

I study long-married couples and decide that wives are like bras: sometimes the most matronly are the most supportive. — Helen Ellis

The Kathakali Men took off their makeup and went home to beat their wives. Even Kunti, the soft one with breasts. — Anonymous

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise. — Amber Valletta

If President Young wants my wives I will give them to him without a grumble, and he can take them whenever he likes. — Jedediah M. Grant

You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives. — Philip Roth

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! — Thomas Hood

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. — Sarah Brightman

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. — Natasha Leggero

Another way to point out the true differences in men and women is that wives spell 'LOVE' 'H-O-L-D M-E'; husbands spell 'LOVE' 'S-E-X. — ScissorMan

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands. — Lauren DeStefano

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days. — Wally Schirra

Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives — Niall Horan

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'. — Sylvia Nasar

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with. — John Steinbeck

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. — May Sarton

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said. — Jack Redmond

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. — Mignon McLaughlin

The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted. — Kin Hubbard

I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib. — Harry Harlow

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. — Jackie Gleason

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. — Charles Bukowski

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. — Siegfried Sassoon

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. — Horace Walpole

Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning. — R. Kent Hughes

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — Jane Austen

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives. — Charlotte Whitton

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] — Kurt Vonnegut

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? — Barbra Streisand

A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)! — Steven Erikson

One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights. — M.F. Moonzajer

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever. — Les Dawson

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle. — Gabrielle

I hope you smile, laugh, and maybe even learn something that will help you along the way to happily-ever-after. — T.N. Carpenter

Hey, I'm just teasing. Isn't that what husbands who are hopelessly in love with their wives do? — E.L. James

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano

Here's to our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet! — Groucho Marx

Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives. — David Letterman

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard. — Genie Frisbee

When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. — Brigham Young

Osama bin Laden ... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide. — David Letterman

Had the love been perennial, there won't have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time. — Girdhar Joshi

I suppose you'd have ten wives if you could."
"I'd be sufficiently miserable with one. The other nine would be redundant. — Lisa Kleypas

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?' — Bill Maher

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. — Will Cuppy

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives. — Andre Previn

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. — Mel Brooks

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. — Charles Stuart Calverley

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. — Owen Jones

I've had three wives. I've had five weddings. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore

Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives? — Bill Maher

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out. — Bradley Whitford

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants. — Randall Wright

Military Wives - Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country. — Aditi Mathur Kumar

Best of wives and best of women. — Alexander Hamilton

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. — Jackie Kennedy

The coyest maids make the fondest wives. — Samuel Richardson

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

That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint. — Maryln Schwartz

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes. — Martin Luther

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. — Mary Calderone

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women — John Wayne

In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives. — Jake LaMotta

Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters. — Alfred Kinsey

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true. — Edmund Hillary

13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. — Anonymous

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. — Emma Thompson

How to share leisure time is a phantom issue between husbands and wives. It is more important than making a choice about children's school... — Girdhar Joshi

Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations. — Norhafsah Hamid

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives — Jane Campion

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives. — John Gay

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!' — William Cosmo Monkhouse

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow. — Sacha Guitry

You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings? — William Shakespeare

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. — Benjamin Franklin

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. — Ambrose Bierce

He tells old wives' tales much to the point. — Horace

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives ... men have stronger muscles than women. — Bertrand Russell

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

For it goes without saying, women with the fluidity of water do not make dormant wives, nor ice for that matter. — Candace Gleave

Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives. — Gwen Cooper

Two wives? That exceeds the custom. — Moliere

I laughed my way through The Stepford Wives. — Cathleen McGuigan

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women. — Mike Caro