"One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife."
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"It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women."
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"I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife."
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"My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize."
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"Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it."
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"Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her."
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"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise."
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"One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife."
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"Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis."
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"Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives."
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"I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own."
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"…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives."
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"I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough."
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"In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe."
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"The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her"
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"No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife."
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"A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her."
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"A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over."
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"Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no."
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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 a matter of bewilderment for my wife."
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