Wives Quotes

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Lovers, Husbands

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Time, Car, Possible

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

Love, Mother, Father

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Time, Children, Stupidity

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Character, Evening

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Great, Men

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Married, Bachelors

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

Age, Men, Afraid

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

Women, Men, Him

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

Wisdom, Wife, Thinking

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

Drunk, Children, Law

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

Age, Men, Young

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

Country, Presidents

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

Understand, Vain, Husbands

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

Great, Morning, Fact

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

Good, Women, Men

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid

Men, Makes, Please

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

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny Youngman

Men, Die, Before

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

Often, Faults, Husbands

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Men, Fun, American

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
Ann Romney

True, Single, Together

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore Dreiser

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan

Time, War, Children

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Keith Henson

High, Status, Males

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.
Tina Turner

Pain, Girl, Heart

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke

Women, Men, Successful

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

Themselves, Leave, Less

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