"I love people and entertaining. The fact I can still do it, and it's with my wife is phenomenal. I wanna reach 95 years!"
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"My wife's the ugliest woman in the world - I'd sooner take her with me on tour, than kiss her goodbye."
"Two wives? That exceeds the custom."
"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."
"One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends."
"The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife."
"Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."
"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
"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."
"I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]"
"Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever."
"A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another."
"The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping."
"I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend."
"But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise."
"It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife."
"In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck."
"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."
"I'm 29 years-old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife."
"The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives."