Man Whose Wife Quotes

#1. I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

James Cromwell

#2. Kid, show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight.

Leo Durocher

#3. The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

H.L. Mencken

#4. If a man moves to the forest, and his wife isn't there to share his spaghetti-os, are they still married?

Roxanne Snopek

#5. A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

Euripides

#6. The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Julian Fellowes

#7. No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

Oscar Wilde

#8. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

Mas'udi

#9. Who is the best friend to a man and a woman?" The answer is: "A wife to her husband and a husband to his wife.

Sudha Murty

#10. Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in a wife - a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.

Eleanor Brown

#11. Dammit, Laurelyn. You make me the man I am today-the one who loves his wife and wants to be a father. When are you gonna see that you've undone all the damage she caused. You make me...unbroken.

Georgia Cates

#12. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures ...

Stephen King

#13. I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.

Marlon James

#14. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Anonymous

#15. A man's home is his wife's castle.

Alexander Chase

#16. Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.

Richard Armour

#17. I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh.

Heber C. Kimball

#18. When a man declares: "I am sure of my wife," it means he is sure of his wife. But when a woman declares: "I am sure of my husband," it means that she is sure of herself.

Francis De Croisset

#19. I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!

Ann Romney

#20. Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.

Farhan Akhtar

#21. A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

Phyllis Bottome

#22. A man whose mother won't let him lift a finger is ruined for a wife." The

Christina Baker Kline

#23. Did this fat little priest mean to take her as a wife? She was horrified at the thought of marrying of man whose only skill with a blade was cutting slivers of gorgonzola.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#24. She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn't it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn't trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?

Sherry Thomas

#25. The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. "He was even kind to his ponies," Mrs. Dai added. "I'm sure he was," said the queen, back on familiar ground.

Ken Follett

#26. Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

William Lloyd Garrison

#27. There once was a man from Des Moines
Whose wife was always annoyed
He stepped in the kitchen
She started her bitchin'
Now that fucking cunt is dead.

Frances Winkler

#28. This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

Pope Francis

#29. A strong man does not need a silent wife.

Kate Elliott

#30. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.

Rachel Cohn

#31. When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Christopher Gist

#32. They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!"
Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished.
Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

John Flanagan

#33. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

Jodi Thomas

#34. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

Liam O'Flaherty

#35. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.

Ayn Rand

#36. A man awakes every morning
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly.

B.J. Ward

#37. The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Robert Duvall

#38. Anti-narrative sequences of a man (Watt) sitting in a dark bedroom drinking bourbon while his wife (Heath) and an Amway representative (Johnson) have acrobatic coitus in the background's lit hallway.

David Foster Wallace

#39. In the future I man a lighthouse with my wife, daughter, and father-in-law. We send out a great beam of light every night even though no one ever sees it.

Matthew Quick

#40. My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.

William The Silent

#41. There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

Chris Rock

#42. My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

Josh McDowell

#43. My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4, 225 lb. man!

Nigel Barker

#44. Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

William Penn

#45. The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Len Deighton

#46. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

C.S. Lewis

#47. When a man cheats on his wife or girlfriend, he breaks the spell that made him once the special one.

Linda Alfiori

#48. People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald

#49. Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

Honore De Balzac

#50. 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

#51. Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

Nikolai Gogol

#52. With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

Eugene Ormandy