Ex Wife Quotes

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

Tell your girlfriend or wife you love them everyday. Like I do!

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.

I'm also the father of three beautiful children and I've been married to my wife for 18 years, and we've been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.

I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We're playing the field right now.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

Your marriage goes to a whole new level. You not only fall in love with your wife in a new way, but you're forced to pull together. You have to become a united front.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

On any given day, my daughters would snuggle in bed with my wife and me. We just hug and kiss each other. We laugh out loud and act completely silly. I stop and think to myself, "This is love."