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"There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids."
"I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph."
"No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is."
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
"This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth"
"I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler."
"If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country."
"The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not."
"Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said."
"You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller."
"I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman."
"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
"My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not."
"A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse."
"A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide."
"A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit."
"I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me."
"and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan."
"The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy."
"Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn."
