Quotes with ex-wife

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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • John Keats The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Cyril Connolly The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bobby Darin There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry Fielding There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Homer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Carlisle Floyd There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Casey Stengel They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • John Gay Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Feirstein To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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