Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

Benjamin Franklin

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

Benjamin Franklin

He that takes a wife, takes care

Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Anton Chekhov

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

Anton Chekhov

Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Barry Sonnenfeld

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

Don Adams

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Brian Clough

My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.

Boris Karloff

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

Bob Dylan

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

Brigham Young

Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Brigham Young

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

Juvenal

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dean Koontz

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Craig Kilborn

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

Craig Kilborn

John Kerry announced his plan for how to handle those poor naked prisoners. His wife is going to buy them all a $1,000 Armani suit.

Eli Wallach

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own

Armie Hammer

I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.

Bear Bryant

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

Archie Panjabi

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

Archie Panjabi

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

Aristotle

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Ben Horowitz

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Dominic West

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

David Bowie

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.