Top 180 Wives Quotes

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn’t play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn’t appreciate it then.

My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It’s a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I’ve written are about wives who just couldn’t get away.

People label themselves husbands, wives, moms, sisters, and friends before they label themselves Democrats or Republicans.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

I can’t be a wife. I’m not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

It is out of the question that the task of socialist women’s activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

My wife talks a lot with Fernandinho and Ederson’s wives.

Wives and girlfriends really shouldn’t be anywhere near the band. Not at all. Anyone who’s listening to their girlfriend, they shouldn’t be involved. All bands have Yoko Onos, and the Mondays were no exception.

In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can’t. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don’t know what half the wives look like.

People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We’re constantly reading about scientific studies that support old wives’ tales.

The first play I did was a funny one called ‘The School for Wives’, by Moliere. We were wearing the ugliest wigs and the worst costumes you can ever imagine to try to recreate 17th-century France in Singapore. But I got my first real pay cheque from that. I was very happy taking that cheque to the bank.

My mother, along with Papa’s other eventual wives – Pauline, Marty Gelhorn, Mary Welch – they all, at one time or another, no matter how angry they were at him at the moment, said, ‘Look, Papa is special. He writes so beautifully. We have to let this go on.’

I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Candidates’ wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands’ appearances.

All poets’ wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

Stripped of its plot, the ‘Iliad’ is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

The Fela Kuti Queens – the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti – are my fashion icons.

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I’m the parent, but I’m the woman, and it’s like, ‘Ah, what happens now?’

If you look at comparative figures, the last two episodes of ‘Six Wives of Henry VIII’ were watched by 4m. Graham Norton, who is very funny, gets 3m. Johnny Vaughan’s comedy, which I have never seen but people say isn’t very good, got less than half the viewers of ‘Six Wives.’

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the… pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they’re with their wives and husbands.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we’re going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

What’s the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don’t know the difference.

I’m not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought ‘Husbands and Wives’ was great.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

For older actresses, the story is still the same. They are either subservient wives taking care of their husbands – like that typical age-old character of a woman, who serves her husband a hot cup of tea as soon as he comes home; or they are mothers dependent on their sons.

It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people – mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people, not perfect.

I know it sounds like I’m playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they’re not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

I do a lot of referendums. They can’t talk back. They don’t have wives. They don’t have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there’s a lot of money in them.

I go to the grocery store with my wife. She goes off to buy something. Where is she, anyways? So I ask the manager, ‘What aisle do they keep the wives in?’

Contrary to popular belief, Henry VIII did not divorce any of his wives. He had sought an annulment from Catherine of Aragon – which he finally awarded to himself after the pope’s continued refusal. When it came to Anne’s turn, Henry took the easy route by having her found guilty of treason.

All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers’ wives, my nephews and nieces.

If wives or girlfriends are knowledgeable about sports, it only benefits their relationships. It’s all about give-and-take negotiations, like saying, ‘I’ll see ‘Unforgiven’ if you’ll see ‘The Bridges of Madison County.’

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.

Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn’t mean that much to you, give in to your wife.

As many as half of Ethiopia’s girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Many are men of faith and moral conviction. These men have huge platforms.

It’s unfortunate that there’s such a disconnect between what’s happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

The wives of Henry VIII are too big to be left to chick lit. Their importance is the impact they have on the broad history of the period. On the lives of every man and every woman who lived in England then, and subsequently has lived in England.

There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don’t fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes.

These days, it’s often women in uniform – moms, wives, even grandmothers – who deploy and leave their families behind.

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I’ve never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

The facts are men, women, children, gay, lesbian, transgender, old, young, wives, husbands, black, white are all affected… the face of domestic violence has no one identity.