"A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete."
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"And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God"
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"As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers."
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"My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married."
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"There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing."
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"I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum."
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"I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in."
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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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"No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover."
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"The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband."
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"Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives."
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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."
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"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
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"A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all."
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"..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune."
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"There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives."
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"You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns."
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"Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband."
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"He that takes a wife, takes care"
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"Why does the blind man's wife paint herself."
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