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My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her...

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My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keepi...

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's ...

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...

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(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)I sh...

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I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...

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A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over....

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Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...

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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild ni...

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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him un...

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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

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Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about...

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Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, o...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauSpells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear....

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As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what yo...

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My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it'...

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Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her ...

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John Angell JamesThe Marriage Ring: Or How to Make Home Happy

A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, whic...

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Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

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Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The...

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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Vis...

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A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomp...

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The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

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Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M...

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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

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How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation ...

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Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social...

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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...

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Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I a...

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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr...

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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and ...

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the...

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My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...

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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because ...

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My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like...

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For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with m...

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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do ...

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The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to ma...

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My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion reall...

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These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone tak...

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My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I ...

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Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told...

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One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a ...

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She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary b...

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O. HenryThe Complete Life of John Hopkins

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. g...

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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated ...

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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occu...

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And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understa...

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Oscar WildeComplete Works of Oscar Wilde

Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or ju...

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P. G. WodehouseLove Among the Chickens

One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bra...

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Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and...

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In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My t...

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My dear my better half.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. ...

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My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instan...

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your ...

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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know...

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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever ha...

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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that s...

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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming ho...

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So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and...

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Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife...

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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the sou...

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Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Fr...

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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so ...

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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spiri...

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I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a...

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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most mi...

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There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I do...

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