Top 100 Quotes About Wives
#1. Hey, I'm just teasing. Isn't that what husbands who are hopelessly in love with their wives do?
E.L. James
#2. Still other rumors held that the ultimate aim of Bolshevik policy, seen in the combination of unveiling and collectivization, was to have all women held in common. In the kolkhoz, peasants ware warned, men and women slept together under giant blanket, and wives became common property.
Douglas Northrop
#3. Admonish your wives with kindness
Anonymous
#4. Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.
P.G. Wodehouse
#5. The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice Hoffman
#6. Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
Fanny Kemble
#7. What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
James Caan
#8. Q. Why do men die before their wives? A. They want to.
Beth L.H.
#9. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
#10. Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one pays for the doubtful privilege by abstaining from wine?
C.S. Forester
#11. But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
#12. Male novelists were granted a 'social tradition' in which to operate, Didion discovered" 'hard drinkers, bad livers, wives, wars, big fish, Africa, Paris, no second acts.
Tracy Daugherty
#13. As a society, let's all strive to make "old fashioned" the "new fashion". Husbands make it clear to your wives that you are on a mission to become her knight in shining armor.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#14. Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.
Gwen Cooper
#15. Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
Pope Leo XIII
#16. Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
Margaret Deland
#17. The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level.
Olivia Newton-John
#18. Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
E. E. Cummings
#19. Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#20. Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
#21. American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
Joe Manganiello
#22. I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
Gabrielle Union
#23. People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#24. We're learning more about Osama bin Laden. His father was married 16 times, and he has five wives. I think we're getting to the root of his intense anger. And they say bin Laden never spends the night in the same place twice. No, wait a minute, that's Clinton.
David Letterman
#25. Here's to our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet!
Groucho Marx
#26. Trust me, lots of guys bring women up to their rooms when their wives are aren't there and get massages, it happens all the time. It means 'nothing'.
Triple H
#27. Wives were not supposed to hate their husbands. It was not in the proper order of things.
Kathy Hepinstall
#28. The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.
Conn Iggulden
#29. Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
Amber Valletta
#30. I caught my reflection in the tall mirror. I looked like one of Henry VIII's wives who'd been told she'd soon be replaced.
Andrea Cremer
#31. Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
Emily Giffin
#33. I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.
Melissa Etheridge
#34. You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino
#35. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
Nora Roberts
#36. The Jenny Haniver was repaired. He put his hand flat on the chart table and let the steady throb of Anchorage's engines beat against his palm, and it felt like home. In a cheap hotel behind Wolverinehampton's air-quay Widgery Blinkoe's five wives turned five
Philip Reeve
#37. I'd not sign away my liberty to any man,' Alice answered with spirit.'Wives have no more rights than servants.But once we women have the vote,we'll change all that.
Janet MacLeod Trotter
#38. Anna returned her gaze to the bankers' wives, who huddled into the company of one another. The women were young. Their husbands wore the jewellery of their beauty like elegant wristwatches.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#39. Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live
Muriel Rukeyser
#40. Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach them to cheat on their wives we can save millions on congressional salaries.
Jay Leno
#41. If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.
Alec Baldwin
#42. Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. Men who are cut off, careful, and closed are also lonely and just as vulnerable in a different way as their wives alone in a dark alley after midnight.
James MacDonald
#44. What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid
#45. Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.
Deion Sanders
#46. My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.
Ann Hood
#47. I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and praise 'em as if they wanted to sell 'em.
George Eliot
#48. 13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
Anonymous
#49. The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller ... Knowledge is experience.
Paracelsus
#50. Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed ... And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation.
Heber C. Kimball
#51. Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#52. I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.
J. M. W. Turner
#53. My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'
Michele Bachmann
#54. He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
John Green
#56. How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers - I thought. The wives.
Katharine Hepburn
#57. They never stop, these Stepford wives. They something something all their lives. Work like robots. Yes, that would fit. They work like robots all their lives.
Ira Levin
#58. The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#59. No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.
Mary Allsebrook
#60. You only had to look at Noah and his wife, or at their three sons and their three wives, to realize what a genetically messy lot the human race would turn out to be.
Julian Barnes
#61. For it goes without saying, women with the fluidity of water do not make dormant wives, nor ice for that matter.
Candace Gleave
#62. I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]
Dorothy Parker
#63. 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
#64. Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
#65. I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.
Jane Austen
#66. It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.
Rush Limbaugh
#67. Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
C.S. Lewis
#68. The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can find the rules for the way that the universe generally works. But if you were to try and use it to prove that Henry VIII had six wives, you would be powerless.
Lewis N. Roe
#69. Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers.
Melina Marchetta
#70. I'd learned pretty early on that men were basic creatures. Take away their suits and wives and jobs and responsibilities, and you're left with a beast. A beast who wanted to spar and maim - to embrace their inner savage.
Pepper Winters
#71. I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
Andres Segovia
#72. Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly
Brigham Young
#73. ... I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also.
Louisa May Alcott
#74. 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
#75. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.
Orson Pratt
#76. I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.
David Foster
#77. My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
John Krasinski
#78. If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"
Tom Ford
#79. I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.
Kim Fields
#80. Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted.
Leigh Bardugo
#81. Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides
Christopher Flavin
#82. What on earth is his hold over you? Did he threaten you? Beat you up? You know, I could help if he injured you - "
"Dearie, we owe 'im our lives." I gaped at them, certain I was mishearing. Perhaps they owed him their wives? Knives?
Tarun Shanker
#83. He poured out the wine and took a deep draught of it, then loosened his neckcloth, an act of dinner table impropriety that would have affronted most other wives, but which I strongly encouraged. Brisbane had a very handsome throat.
Deanna Raybourn
#84. High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
Samuel Johnson
#85. In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.
Doris Duke
#86. Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
Moliere
#87. A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he
should act like a man
Umar
#88. A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.
Jay Leno
#89. Wives were always blamed for the death of their spouse, and it was believed that women could leave their sleeping bodies and do deadly deeds, and as a result, women were deeply feared.
Lily King
#90. I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Nigel Dennis
#91. Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.
Genie Frisbee
#92. 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
#93. How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!
William Peter Blatty
#94. Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
Morris Kline
#95. Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.
Michel De Montaigne
#96. When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was lack of appreciation.
Dale Carnegie
#97. His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.
Lauren DeStefano
#98. 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
#99. If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#100. 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
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