Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Gehrig

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

John Gay

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

Jonathan Coe

For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

Mark Salling

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

Pope Francis

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

Peter Mayle

Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

Quentin Tarantino

If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.

Plutarch

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

Plutarch

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Plutarch

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.

Plutarch

Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.

Mick Ralphs

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

Jim Parrack

My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.

Lisa Kleypas

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

Linda Evans

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

Leo Tolstoy

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

Monica Denise Brown

I'm a traditional wife in every sense.

Peter Eisenman

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

Pete Sampras

I've got a great wife, a great life.

Haruki Murakami

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Greg Behrendt

As a guy I never liked being told to call, which my wife really never does, and that's why I call her as often as I do.

John Lee Hancock

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

John Kruk

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

Jimmy Carr

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.

Jimmy Buffett

Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

Katherine Heigl

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Joseph Cook

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Lasse Hallstrom

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

Lasse Hallstrom

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Joseph Prince

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

Juan Manuel Fangio

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

Julius Caesar

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.