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"My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half."
"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"
"I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. "
"But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again."
"I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity."
"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."
"A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy."
"He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife."
"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience."
"Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly"
"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle."
"…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi"
"It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad"
"I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up."
"When husband and wife are united, they are strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus."
"If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange."
"I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg."
"When you work with your wife you really have no "me" time, or place to get away and be with the guys, because you're at work all day together, and then you're at home, and you have this other public life."
"My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying."
"Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it."
