Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

Louise Bogan

O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

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.

Katherine Heigl

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

James Lipton

Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

James M. Barrie

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

Joe Nichols

Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'

John McCain

I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

John Hodgman

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

John Gutfreund

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

John N. Mitchell

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

John Bercow

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

Jimmy Fallon

I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smartest. She's the funniest. I love her so much. She's like the - it's like your best friend for the rest of your life.

Gary Coleman

I don't want to be known as Gary Coleman's wife.

Lou Holtz

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Lord Chesterfield

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Gail Carriger

What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

Frank McCourt

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

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.

Joe Torre

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

Joanne Harris

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

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.

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.

Chris Carpenter

I told my wife I didn't want to do it anymore, ... I wanted to come home.

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.

William Shakespeare

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife.