Top 100 Quotes About Wives
#1. Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
#3. Someone was always leaving
and never coming back.
The wooden houses wait like old wives
along this road; they are everywhere,
abandoned, leaning, turning gray.
Lisel Mueller
#5. Not long ago, I got to meet some troopers whose lives had been saved. They came with their wives, their children, their parents. It was a very moving occasion.
Stephanie Kwolek
#6. Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it because it's what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It's our battle rhythm.
Angela Ricketts
#7. One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
#9. I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.
Sean Bean
#10. If she wanted to go back to Boston so damn bad, she should just do it. He said this knowing full well she wouldn't, for it was the particular curse of the Whiting men that their wives remained loyal to them out of spite. By
Richard Russo
#11. I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.
Larry Conley
#12. Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses."
That's shocking," said the Major. "How on earth will they tell them apart?
Helen Simonson
#13. There are also silent drinkers with big chapped red fists around silent glasses, huddled over, figuring out ways to get their wives outa their thoughts and you can see their mouths lengthen down and draw sorrow almost as you look.
Jack Kerouac
#14. Girlfriends are not wives. I draw the line at married women. Actually, women married to men with guns. If someone's girlfriend wants to make herself available, that's her business. Just don't give my name to your boyfriend.
Jack Dancer
#15. I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. Angie Dickinson in 'Hollywood Wives' took me under her wing. If you look at that cast, I was definitely an 'outcast' ... so to speak. Most of them were of the same era, or just so much more experienced that I was.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#17. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#18. Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
Gerald Durrell
#19. A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.
Genghis Khan
#20. 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.
Woody Allen
#21. Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers - in a word, better citizens
Mary Wollstonecraft
#22. Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
Marta Kristen
#23. In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#24. I love Cecily", "whether or not you believe it. Not in the same way I loved Rose, or you. But what should that matter? I've loved all my wives differently.
Lauren DeStefano
#25. Wives should be kissed - not heard.
Stan Lee
#26. At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers' wives with the words: 'My, what pretty widows you're going to make.
Andrew Roberts
#27. When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#28. ... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
Homer
#29. In the festival which concludes the period, before they go to the temple, both wives and children fall on their knees before their husbands or parents and confess everything in which they have either erred or failed in their duty, and beg pardon for it.
Thomas More
#30. The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives
Huey Freeman The Boondocks
#31. There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.
George W. Bush
#32. Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell
#33. Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
Anne Tyler
#34. Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as 'disappeared persons', and their waiting wives are the 'half-widows'.
Basharat Peer
#35. It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'
Abraham H. Cannon
#36. Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
George Burns
#37. When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
Joe Namath
#38. Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
Neil Diamond
#39. In the Ummah, there was no tradition of veiling until around 627 C.E., when the so-called "verse of hijab" suddenly descended upon the community. That verse, however, was addressed not to women in general, but exclusively to Muhammad's wives:
Reza Aslan
#40. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.
Vikram Seth
#41. Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#42. When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#43. Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.
William Shakespeare
#44. There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.
Sally Cabot Gunning
#45. We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
Christopher McDougall
#46. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures ...
Stephen King
#47. Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?
Charles Lamb
#48. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.
D. Michael Quinn
#49. ...'at that time men began to call on the name of the Lord' (Genesis 4:26b) ... Seth and his line feared God and called on his name. Lamech, Cain's descendant, called only on his wives to hear his boasting (Genesis 4:23).
Samuel Ngewa
#50. Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.
Edith Wharton
#51. 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
#52. Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.
Phyllis Diller
#53. Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
Kate Braverman
#54. Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.
Franjo Tudjman
#55. I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Ann Rule
#56. When we are covering our service member by the shield of prayer, we are engaging God's defense system of protection.
Lisa Nixon Phillips
#57. Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#58. Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love.
James Rollins
James Rollins
#59. The new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.
Betty Friedan
#60. Wives live longer than husbands because they're not married to women.
Colin Mochrie
#61. Men could be faithful to a job, to their friends. Hell, they would even be loyal to their dog before they were faithful to their wives. That was why she had sworn never to get married.
Jamie Begley
#62. All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.
Willie Pep
#63. There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.
Jenny Offill
#64. 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.
Alfred Hitchcock
#65. The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.
Stephen Moyer
#66. She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.
Robert Ludlum
#67. 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
#68. For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
Margaret Cavendish
#69. NEH13.27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Anonymous
#70. Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall
Laird Hamilton
#71. [Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#72. The old equation has changed. Most families no longer save money by keeping wives at home. They lose by not having wives in the workplace, where women have more opportunities than in the past to earn decent wages.
Stephanie Coontz
#73. He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. Some men are crazy," I said, moving toward the door.
"What do wou mean?"
"I mean, some men are in love with their wives.
Charles Bukowski
#75. Fuck the Yanks
And drink their wives
My mind is clear
The sky is bright
I'm happy as a horse's shite
Up came the Bottle of Smoke
Shane MacGowan
#76. You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives.
Philip Roth
#77. Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!
William Shakespeare
#78. Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Paul The Apostle
#79. Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.
David Josiah Brewer
#80. If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
Charles Bukowski
#81. Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)
Alice Walker
#82. The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.
Joyce Cary
#83. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman
#84. Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
Plutarch
#85. In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.
Ashlyn Macnamara
#86. King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#87. When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.
George Foreman
#88. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
John Piper
#89. Men are called to serve their brides by loving their wives as Christ loves His church and gave Himself up for her. The wives are to respect and submit to their husband as unto the Lord. In
Dustin Heiner
#90. It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Anton Chekhov
#92. You wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the
Scott Hahn
#93. 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.
Echo Bodine
#94. 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
#95. As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.
Katharine Whitehorn
#96. May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
Roman Payne
#97. Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
#98. People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#99. There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
Jean De La Bruyere
#100. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.
Steven Erikson
