A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
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.
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.