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I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

Larry Hagman

Actor · American · b. 1931

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.

William Petersen

Actor · American · b. 1953

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?'

Joe Viterelli

Actor · American · 1941 – 2004

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

Ernie Wise

Comedian · English · 1925 – 1999

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.

Randy Travis

Musician · American · b. 1959

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

Michael Davis

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

Wild Bill Hickok

Celebrity · American · 1837 – 1876

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Actor · American · b. 1968

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?'

Eddie Marsan

Actor · English

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Leader · German · 1483 – 1546

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Kin Hubbard

Journalist · American · 1868 – 1930

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

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.

Phyllis Schlafly

Activist · American · b. 1924

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Jeremy Taylor

Clergyman · British · d. 1667

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

William Penn

Leader · English · 1644 – 1718

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist · American · 1903 – 1987

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Harold MacMillan

Politician · English · 1894 – 1986

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Franz Schubert

Composer · Austrian · 1797 – 1828

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

John Buchanan Robinson

Politician · American · 1846 – 1933

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Politician · American · 1911 – 1978

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Oliver Goldsmith

Poet · Irish · 1730 – 1774

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Howard Nemerov

Poet · American · 1920 – 1991

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

John Gay

Poet · English · 1685 – 1732

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

John Pople

Scientist · English · 1925 – 2004

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Piers Anthony

Writer · English · b. 1934

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.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Chanakya

Politician · Indian

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

Peter Straub

Writer · American · b. 1943

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Poet · English · d. 1400

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

Chuck Jones

Director · American · 1912 – 2002

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.

Ramakrishna

Leader · Indian · 1836 – 1886

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

Poet · English · 1685 – 1732

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.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Scientist · English · 1832 – 1917

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Emma Bonino

Politician · Italian · b. 1948

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.

Samuel E. Morison

Historian · American · 1887 – 1976

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Anthony Trollope

Author · English · 1815 – 1882

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Activist · American · 1815 – 1902

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Lasse Hallstrom

Director · Swedish · b. 1946

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Charles Ives

Composer · American · 1874 – 1954

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

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