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“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough”
Groucho Marx Quotes |
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“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”
Rodney Dangerfield Quotes |
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“A good wife makes a good husband”
Harold Macmillan Quotes |
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“All married women are not wives”
Japanese Proverb Quotes |
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“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller Quotes |
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“There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes |
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“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”
Billy Sunday Quotes |
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“It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”
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“She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's
warling.”
William Harrison Ainsworth Quotes Source: Miser's Daughter (bk. III, ch. XV)
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“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and
old men's nurses.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Of Marriage and Single Life
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“Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode:
Though the storm do beat down on my poll,
There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road,
An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.”
William Barnes Quotes Source: Don't Ceare (st. 5)
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“And while the wicket falls behind
Her steps, I thought if I could find
A wife I need not blush to show
I've little further now to go.”
William Barnes Quotes Source: Not Far to Go
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“My fond affection thou hast seen,
Then judge of my regret
To think more happy thou hadst been
If we had never met!
And has that thought been shared by thee?
Ah, no! that smiling cheek
Proves more unchanging love for me
Than labor'd words could speak.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes Source: To My Wife
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“Without thee I am all unblessed,
And wholly blessed in thee alone.”
George W. Bethune Quotes Source: To My Wife
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“If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as
thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.”
Bible Quotes Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XIII, v. 6)
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“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as
being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be
not hindered.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Peter (ch. III, v. 7)
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“A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions
of a wife are a continual dropping.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 13)
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“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the
bread of idleness.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 27)
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“So bent on self-sanctifying,--
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.”
Robert Williams Buchanan Quotes Source: Fra Giacomo
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“In thy face have I seen the eternal.”
Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen Quotes Source: To his wife, when dying at Bonn (1860), found in "Life of Baron Bunsen", vol. II, p. 389
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“Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Henpecked Husband
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“She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a bonny wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
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“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
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“Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou
art the man in the moon.”
William Congreve Quotes Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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