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Sunday, December 1st, 2024
the First Week of Advent
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Wives'

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So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
June Allyson, American Actress (1917-2006)
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Susan B. Anthony, American Activist (1820-1906)
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen, British Writer (1775-1817)
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon, English Philosopher (1561-1626)
What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.
Robert Barnes, English Celebrity
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore, American Actor (1882-1942)
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop, American Journalist (1907-  )
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher (1846-1924)
I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.
Sarah Brightman, English Musician (1961-  )
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks, American Comedian (1926-  )
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull, Lakotan Statesman
Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
John Bunny, American Actor (1863-1915)
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
George Byron, Scottish Poet (1788-1824)
What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
James Caan, American Actor (1940-  )
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Mary S. Calderone, -
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
Kim Cattrall, English Actress (1956-  )
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
Margaret Cavendish, English Writer
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist (1873-  )
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Thomas Dekker, English Dramatist
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Nigel Dennis, British Writer (1912-1989)
 
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