1,029 Quotes About Wife

  • Author Washington Irving
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    Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.

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  • Author Alan Jackson
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    I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

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  • Author Erica Jong
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    My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

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  • Author Jamelia
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    Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

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  • Author James Joyce
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    Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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  • Author Jon Bon Jovi
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    The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

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  • Author Randall Jarrell
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    First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

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