1,029 Quotes About Wife

  • Author Wilkie Collins
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    Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

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  • Author William J. Clinton
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    The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

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  • Author E. E. Cummings
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    Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.

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  • Author Andre Dubus
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    I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

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  • Author Andrew Davies
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    My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

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  • Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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    You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

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  • Author Bob Dylan
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    All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

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  • Author Dick Van Dyke
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    My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

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  • Author Jacques Delors
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    Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

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