Quotation Explorer - 'Wives'

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
Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is - Doris Lessing
I like the way we talk to each other. It feels honest. It was different with Manuel. One of us always had to win. Husbands and wives do that, worry more about being right than being truthful. - Richard Lange
I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine. - Kyril Bonfiglioli
That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. - Milan Kundera
Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
It's been through three wives. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral. - Unknown
Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet! - Groucho Marx
There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust. - William Shakespeare
As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives. - Anthony Liccione
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists. - Kage Baker
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. - Marilyn Monroe
Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet! - Groucho Marx
Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES. - Kishore Bansal
The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted. - Kin Hubbard
Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives. - Neil Diamond
And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have you, but to waste it!""Women waste nothing--they couldn't if they tried," said Aaron Sisson. - D.H. Lawrence
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. - May Sarton
Old wives don't dieif they're getting alimony
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. - Benjamin Franklin
One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights. - M.F. Moonzajer
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. - Abigail Van Buren
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
Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas & King David - Shannon L. Alder
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. - Genghis Khan
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