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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.
Author:
Steve Yzerman
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I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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Take my wife... Please!
Author:
Henny Youngman
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My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.
Author:
Michael York
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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.
Author:
Lee Yew
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Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.
Author:
Isaac Yeffet
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Author:
William Yeats
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
Author:
Zakk Wylde
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Author:
William Wycherley
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I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
Author:
Tom Wopat
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.
Author:
Ernie Wise
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
Author:
Bruce Willis
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My wife thinks I'm completely mad.
Author:
Malcolm Williamson
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I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.
Author:
Treat Williams
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My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.
Author:
Brian Williams
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
Author:
Wil Wheaton
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I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.
Author:
Brian Welch
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As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
Author:
Stand Watie
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The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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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.
Author:
Charles Warner
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I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
Author:
Chris Ware
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I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
Author:
Bill Walton
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I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Author:
Voltaire
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He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'
Author:
Joe Viterelli
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I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Author:
Queen Victoria
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Author:
Lana Turner
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Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.
Author:
Robin Tunney
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Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.
Author:
Franjo Tudjman
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I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
Author:
Randy Travis
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Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Author:
Merle Travis
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And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.
Author:
Mel Tillis
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I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Author:
Booth Tarkington
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The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
Author:
Max Sydow
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I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Author:
Billy Strayhorn
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Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
Author:
Peter Straub
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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
Author:
Marie Stopes
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A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Author:
Lucy Stone
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Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
Author:
James Stockdale
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If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
Author:
George Stigler
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
Author:
George Stephen
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They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
Author:
Casey Stengel
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There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Author:
Socrates
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Author:
Socrates
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I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.
Author:
Michael Smith
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When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Author:
Joe Slovo
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Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.
Author:
Helen Slater
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My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.
Author:
Tom Sizemore
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
Author:
Russell Simmons
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
Author:
Ted Shackelford
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Author:
Franz Schubert
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I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
Author:
Max Schmeling
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.
Author:
Michael Schiavo
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What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
Author:
Graeme Saux
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In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.
Author:
Graeme Saux
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
Author:
George Santayana
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This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
Author:
Ja Rule
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We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York.
Author:
Darius Rucker
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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One man's folly is another man's wife.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
Author:
Ray Romano
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Author:
Will Rogers
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When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Author:
Chi Rodriguez
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However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
Author:
John Robinson
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.
Author:
Paul Reiser
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We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.
Author:
Paul Reiser
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My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
Author:
Burton Rascoe
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Author:
Otto Rank
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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
Author:
Mick Ralphs
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I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
Author:
George Porter
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Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.
Author:
John Pople
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
Author:
Oliver Platt
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I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Author:
Emo Philips
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I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Author:
Prince Philip
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Author:
Prince Philip
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The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
Author:
William Petersen
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Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
Author:
Shimon Peres
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Author:
Samuel Pepys
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
Author:
William Penn
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Author:
William Penn
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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
Author:
Sean Penn
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I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
Author:
Harvey Pekar
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
Author:
Sam Peckinpah
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
Author:
Eugene Ormandy
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
Author:
Ed O'Neill
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I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
Author:
Ted Olson
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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Ted Olson
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My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.
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George Olah
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It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
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David Ogilvy
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
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David Ogilvy
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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
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David Ogilvy
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There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
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Clifford Odets
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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
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Barack Obama
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I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
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Paul Nurse
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Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
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Anne Northup
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In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
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Douglass North
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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
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Douglass North
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I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
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Kenneth Noland
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My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
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Leonard Nimoy
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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
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Stevie Nicks
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I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
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Helmut Newton
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Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.
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David Neeleman
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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George Nathan
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Ilie Nastase
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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Cillian Murphy
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Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
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Bill Mumy
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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J. Morton
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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
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Samuel Morison
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I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.
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James Moran
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
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Thomas Moore
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And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.
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Mary Moore
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We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
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Cleo Moore
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Michel Montaigne
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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Mary Montagu
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I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
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Bob Monkhouse
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We have two kids, my wife and myself.
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Thelonious Monk
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My wife taught me the importance of living well.
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Robert Mondavi
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Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
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John Mitchell
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My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.
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Martin Milner
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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John Mill
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
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John Milius
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It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
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Ismail Merchant
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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H. Mencken
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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H. Mencken
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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H. Mencken
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In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.
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Tim Meadows
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There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
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Millicent McIntosh
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You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.
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John McGinley
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.
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Reba McEntire
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I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
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Kent McCord
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My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
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Pete McCloskey
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If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
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David McCallum
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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
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Groucho Marx
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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Eddie Marsan
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Gabriel Marquez
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I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
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Marla Maples
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I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.
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Joe Mantegna
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When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.
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Joe Mantegna
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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Barry Mann
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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
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Norman Mailer
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
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William Macy
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
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Harold MacMillan
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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Gavin MacLeod
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I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
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Mary MacLane
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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
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Russell Lynes
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Martin Luther
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Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
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Derek Luke
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Clare Luce
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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
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Lucan
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Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
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Rob Lowe
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But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
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Augustus Longstreet
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We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.
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Dave Lombardo
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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
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John Lithgow
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I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
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Bill Lipinski
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My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
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Ray Liotta
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So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
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Ray Liotta
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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Jet Li
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My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.
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Michael Lewis
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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C. Lewis
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I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
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Sam Levenson
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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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Sugar Leonard
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Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
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Sugar Leonard
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I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
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Hugh Leonard
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I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
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Hugh Leonard
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Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
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Jay Leno
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Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
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Gyorgy Legeti
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We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.
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James Laughlin
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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
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Philip Larkin
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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John Langhorne
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The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
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Frank Langella
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I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
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Jessica Lange
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If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
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Ann Landers
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My former wife is a truly wonderful person.
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Burt Lancaster
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But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
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Neil LaBute
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Hans Kung
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I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
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Mike Krzyzewski
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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
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Fritz Kreisler
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Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
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Fritz Kreisler
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
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Fritz Kreisler
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There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.
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Richard Krajicek
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
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Dean Koontz
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As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
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Boris Kodjoe
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You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.
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Boris Kodjoe
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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Kenneth Koch
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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Bobby Knight
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My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.
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Evel Knievel
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I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
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Thomas Kinkade
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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Jack Kingston
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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
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Craig Kilborn
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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Imran Khan
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Jackie Kennedy
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Sally Kellerman
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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Alphonse Karr
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Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
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Andrea Jung
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I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
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Raul Julia
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The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
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Jon Jovi
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The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
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Michael Jordan
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That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
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Mother Jones
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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
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Chuck Jones
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Samuel Johnson
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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Samuel Johnson
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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Pamela Johnson
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Lyndon Johnson
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If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
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Lyndon Johnson
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
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Warren Jeffs
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I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
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Samuel Jackson
