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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. -- E. W. Howe
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. -- Samuel Pepys
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. -- Menander
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. -- William Congreve
the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband! -- Lucretia Mott
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part. -- Edward Young
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. -- Alexander Pope
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life? -- Robert Frost
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. -- Homer
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. -- George Farquhar
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband. -- Harriet Hanson Robinson
What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life? -- Paul Stookey
At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music. -- Tina Fey
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business. -- Robin Gibb
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers. -- Mark Twain
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing. -- Marie Stopes
Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife -- John Cornyn
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? -- John Gay
I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again. -- Beccy Cole
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job -- Malcolm X
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it. -- James Dobson
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes. -- Lech Walesa
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. -- Lord Chesterfield
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus
Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore. -- Jessica Hahn
My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4", 225 lb. man! -- Nigel Barker
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? -- Mary Astell
I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids. -- Denis Leary
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. -- Hesiod
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. -- Dorothy Fields
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. -- Helen Rowland
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. -- William Penn
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. -- David Bailey
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. -- James M. Barrie
Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife. -- Robin Tunney
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out. -- Taryn Manning
If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I am a wife-made man. -- Danny Kaye
Man and wife make one fool. -- Ben Jonson
A man's home is his wife's castle. -- Alexander Chase
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. -- Euripides
One man's folly is another man's wife. -- Helen Rowland
A man's best friend is a good wife. -- Thomas A. Edison
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself. -- Benjamin Franklin
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist. -- Eric Berne
After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
Women love to hear a man defending their wife. -- Geraldine Ferraro
No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. -- Oscar Wilde
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. -- Charles Churchill
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible. -- Richard Wagner
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. -- Thomas Fuller
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is. -- Jimmy Durante
A man's tie should never be louder than his wife. -- John Hughes
Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight! -- Margaret Way
A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone. -- Evan Esar
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife -- Alanis Morissette
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper. -- David Gemmell
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. -- Walter Bagehot
Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive. -- Justin Baldoni
A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures... -- Stephen King
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? -- Anthony Trollope
A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. -- Boonaa Mohammed
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny. -- James M. Cain
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have. -- Juvenal
A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor -- Lucille Kallen
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. -- Groucho Marx
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- E. W. Howe
Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick. -- Chad Kroeger
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. -- George Jean Nathan
A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini. -- Jackie Gleason
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly. -- Howard Stern
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. -- Cyril Connolly
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife. -- Paul McCartney
You're a man who cheats on his wife, you can't ever undo that. -- Gillian Flynn
A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. -- Oscar Wilde
... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife. -- Herman Wouk
Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife -- Castle Noble
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it. -- Julia Quinn
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. -- Arthur Golden
A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer. -- Evan Esar
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. -- Groucho Marx
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife. -- Bob Phillips
It is easier to play around with a man's wife than with his cliches -- Tom Robbins
Every man sees his wife like an angel; until he gets a better one. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire. -- Steve Maraboli
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. -- Oscar Wilde
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife. -- Crystal Eastman
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool. -- Honore de Balzac
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. -- Mignon McLaughlin
A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
A man ought to pray daily for himself, his wife, his children and his family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved. -- Honore de Balzac
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife. -- Ryan Stiles
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. -- Richard Armour
You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women -- Leon Uris
A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband. -- H. L. Mencken
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. -- Edgar Allan Poe
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it... -- Bill Vaughan
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. -- Lord Chesterfield
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. -- Lord Chesterfield
A man who sacrifices for his wife and serves her becomes much more attractive to her. -- Jimmy Evans
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife. -- Harold Robbins
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can. -- Anne Bradstreet

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