There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Five wives can't all be wrong.
Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them.
Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!