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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

Director · Swedish · b. 1946

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Patricia Ireland

Activist · American · b. 1945

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.

Fred Saberhagen

Author · American · b. 1930

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

Alex Campbell

Politician · Canadian · b. 1933

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Poet · Greek

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Epictetus

Philosopher · Greek

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

Ernestine Rose

Activist · 1810 – 1892

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Anton Chekhov

Dramatist · Russian · 1860 – 1904

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

Guy Ritchie

Director · British · b. 1968

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.

Philip Larkin

Poet · English · 1922 – 1985

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.

Nicholas Sparks

Author · American · b. 1965

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.

Douglass North

Economist · American · b. 1920

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

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.

Queen Victoria

Royalty · British · 1819 – 1901

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.

Ernestine Rose

Activist · 1810 – 1892

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

Eric Allin Cornell

Physicist · American · b. 1961

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

Sam Levenson

Author · American · 1911 – 1980

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

John Hewson

Politician · Australian · b. 1946

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Queen Victoria

Royalty · British · 1819 – 1901

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

Harvey Pekar

Writer · American · b. 1939

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.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine

Saint · 354 – 430

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Guru Nanak

Philosopher · 1469 – 1539

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

William Blake

Poet · English · 1757 – 1827

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

David Bailey

Photographer · English · b. 1938

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

President · American · b. 1924

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Bella Abzug

Lawyer · American · 1920 – 1998

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Naguib Mahfouz

Novelist · Egyptian · 1911 – 2006

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

Dick Armey

Politician · American · b. 1940

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Hugh Leonard

Dramatist · Irish

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.

Louise Slaughter

Politician · American · b. 1929

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

Author · American · 1920 – 1994

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Barry Goldwater

Politician · American · 1909 – 1998

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

Charles Farrar Browne

Writer · American · 1834 – 1867

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

John Milius

Director · American · b. 1944

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Alexander Chase

Journalist · American

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

Pete McCloskey

Politician · American · b. 1927

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

Aaron Spelling

Producer · American · 1923 – 2006

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.

Ron Reagan

Journalist · American · b. 1958

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Prince Philip

Royalty · British · b. 1921

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

William J. Clinton

President · American · b. 1946

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.

Samuel Pepys

Writer · English · 1633 – 1703

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.

David Neeleman

Businessman · Brazilian · b. 1959

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus

Philosopher · 1466 – 1536

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