“There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama”
Mark Twain
“A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it.”
William Saroyan
“The judge is the neutral objective party whose job is to weigh and measure all the surrounding circumstances and decide what's fair. By conditioning a plea, the district attorney is playing the role of both prosecutor and judge.”
William Petrillo
“Waist circumference is far more important than simply measuring how much someone weighs.”
Lewis Kuller
“In Japan, they weigh you (to measure what you've eaten), ... I was mortified.”
Carlene LeFevre