First Wives Quotes

#1. It's interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a certain age. That was a milestone that made you think, "Oh, things are going to change."

Winona Ryder

#2. This was like the Rubik's Cube of life.
One big glob of scattered, multicolored possibilities she had to sort out and line up in the appropriate manner by twisting endless scenario after scenario in her head.
And it sucked.
Big, fat wankers.

Dakota Cassidy

#3. My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#4. May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Jack Kornfield

#5. A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

Bai Juyi

#6. I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage' ...

Doug Stanhope

#7. Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.

James C. Dobson

#8. The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

William Hazlitt

#9. Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

Tom DeLay

#10. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...

Christopher Hitchens

#11. It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

Mickey Rooney

#12. Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

#13. I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Patrick Murray

#14. We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born ...

Orson Pratt

#15. My first [wife] was an angel; My second a silly woman; My third a Roman Senator; My fourth a pretty little thing; My fifth - all woman!

Nat C. Goodwin

#16. I also learned what I and many other wives were doing wrong. We were neglecting ourselves. We were born women yet were taking care of our roles as mom, employee or wife before we took care of ourselves. But in order to adequately fulfill those roles, we have to put ourselves first.

Elona Washington

#17. When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

Thomas Hardy

#18. Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

Erich Von Stroheim

#19. First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers ...

Rosalynn Carter

#20. I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

Donald Trump

#21. To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.

Amy Carlson

#22. Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

Zig Ziglar

#23. Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.

Edith Wharton

#24. I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

Mike Schmidt

#25. Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

Jeff Smith

#26. The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch of their own leaflets on US troops, designed to be psychologically devastating. They read, 'Your wives are back at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds.

Jon Ronson

#27. The understanding of reality always emerges through the emotions that reality gives us.

Daniel Marques

#28. Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Tertullian

#29. Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?

Louise Erdrich