"I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife."
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"I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good."
"The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool."
"She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered."
"An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities."
"Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes."
"I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens."
"I am not really interested in the comic book movies for example. They send me very violent scripts that don't interest me. One I was sent involved me playing a woman, a mother and wife who gets killed, shot in the stomach. It was a thriller and it did not excite me at all. So I turned it down."
"Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?."
"Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!"
"All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this."
"I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful."
"I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]"