Quotes of: Wives Keyword

A survey of 348 male managers at twenty Fortune 500 companies found that fathers from dual-career families put in an average of two fewer hours per week – or about 4 percent less – than men whose wives were at home. That was the only difference b...

The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

Nell Freudenberger

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Emma Thompson

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Ovid

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

Wally Schirra

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

John Barrymore

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Wives and Daughters

Military Wives—Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country.

Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Siegfried Sassoon

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Lord Byron

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Hamlin Garland

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

David Foster

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Les Dawson

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahe...

Sermons 1-19

As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine....'[M]en are bigger, most of the time...and they ha...

Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times

[about to call Simon with the answer to another riddle] Zeus: No, wait, wait! It's a trick. It's a trick. John McClane: What d'you mean? Zeus: I forgot about the man. John McClane: What man? Fuck the man! We got ten seconds here! Zeus: He said, "how ...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Mary Calderone

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Patrick Murray

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

Marta Kristen