(293 quotes found)
“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.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.”
Jim Bishop
“The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.”
Andrea Dworkin
“Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation”
Marcus Aurelius
“American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced”
Elinor Glyn
“Our children are not going to be just "our children"-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.”
Dr. Mary S. Calderone
“I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.”
Patrick Murray
“My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time”
Lee Trevino
“The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes”
Martin Luther