"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
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"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."
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"When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face."
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"I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women"
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"I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on."
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"I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her."
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"It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better."
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"When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music."
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"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned."
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"Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm."
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"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"
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"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."
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"When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any"
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"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
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"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed."
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"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
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"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
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"No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife."
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"I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines."
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"I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy."
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