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"My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously."
"How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives."
"Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?"
"That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church.""
"I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes."
"Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint."
"The effect of the coke on our relationship [with my wife Brenda] was very sick. Now that it's over, those were actually funny times. Looking for each other's coke, hiding it, finding it, doing some, not telling the other. Then fighting over it."
"These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them."
"I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it."
"... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress."
"I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?"
"The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord."
"My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters."
"I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected."
"I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do."
"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."
"A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness."
"Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man."
"My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on."
"There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me."
