Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Votes: 3
Francis BaconI'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great. Votes: 3
Nell FreudenbergerWives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. Votes: 3
Lord ByronWives are people who think it's against the law not to answer the phone when it rings. Votes: 3
Rita RudnerAs a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives. Votes: 3
Karren BradyI can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. Votes: 3
Sarah BrightmanCandidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances. Votes: 0
Jodi KantorHusbands and wives are equal partners. They have different but complementary responsibilities. Votes: 0
Quentin L. CookI admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev. Votes: 0
Alexander III of RussiaTime turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. Votes: 0
Algernon Charles SwinburneMoney earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children. Votes: 0
Jacqueline NovogratzMothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. Votes: 0
Robert BrowningI know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. Votes: 0
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteGreat artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThe only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted. Votes: 0
Kin HubbardIn my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference. Votes: 0
Ashlyn MacnamaraShould all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. Votes: 0
William Shakespeare[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireI guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. Votes: 0
Sam KinisonThe unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. Votes: 0
Andrew YoungI cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. Votes: 0
Martin LutherBesides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed. Votes: 0
JuvenalGod designed husbands and wives to complete each other, not to compete with each other. Votes: 0
Jimmy EvansI am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinHusbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. Votes: 0
Wilkie CollinsI've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women Votes: 0
John WayneFirst ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers ... Votes: 0
Rosalynn CarterA man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezMost men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall Votes: 0
Laird HamiltonWomen will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. Votes: 0
Dick Van DykeThere are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives. Votes: 0
Charlotte WhittonMaids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being. Votes: 0
Fanny KembleI've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others. Votes: 0
Andres SegoviaSoldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. Votes: 0
Siegfried SassoonWhere I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisIn Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. Votes: 0
Abigail Van BurenI have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltWomen are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. Votes: 0
May SartonBridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. Votes: 0
George BurnsOsama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich. Votes: 0
David LettermanMost wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. Votes: 0
Jackie GleasonGolf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. Votes: 0
Jim Bishop"¦but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. Votes: 0
HomerThe reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives. Votes: 0
Ronald PerelmanItalian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues. Votes: 0
Indro MontanelliBut he's mad, completely mad, and he turns his wives into golems. He needs killing, not negotiation. Votes: 0
T. KingfisherThe difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckI've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. Votes: 0
Patrick MurrayMen never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinI can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. Votes: 0
Frank McCourtAll that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters. Votes: 0
Gordon LightfootSome women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives. Votes: 0
Joan RiversIt was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. Votes: 0
Diane WakoskiOne good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinBadly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives. Votes: 0
Edward BellamyThe invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out. Votes: 0
Bradley WhitfordArmy wives experience hell from the inside out; a wound you'll never see, a scar that never heals. Votes: 0
L.M. FieldsEven so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Votes: 0
Paul the ApostleSome of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days. Votes: 0
Wally SchirraWe bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. Votes: 0
Owen JonesYou might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives. Votes: 0
Heber C. KimballThe word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes. Votes: 0
Martin LutherThe most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives) Votes: 0
Rod StewartIn my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives. Votes: 0
Jake LaMottaI was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said. Votes: 0
Jack RedmondA man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man Votes: 0
UmarAmerican comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch. Votes: 1 Joe Manganiello
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. Votes: 1 Washington Irving
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. Votes: 2 Kate Hudson
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. Votes: 1 Gabrielle Union
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true. Votes: 3 Edmund Hillary
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Votes: 1 Jane Austen
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. Votes: 1 Keith Henson
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. Votes: 1 Theodore Dreiser
They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not easy being married to the military. Votes: 3 L.M. Fields
Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings. Votes: 4 William Ruckelshaus
My wife loves me but she don't like me. I'm still in the trenches every day. I'm still buildin' my name, and it's growin' rapidly, but not fast enough to where I can relax at home with my kids and my wife. I'm always on the road, 3 months at a time, 6 months at a time. Votes: 4 Aaron Dontez Yates