Quotes with ex-wife

Quotes 221 till 240 of 261.

  • Billy Sunday Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bono U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Hader Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Roux We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Jane Austen We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Wealth - Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
    Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ann Patchett Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Phyllis Schlafly What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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  • William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Burton Rascoe What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
    Burton Rascoe
     
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  • Abraham Polonsky What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York? Never had a wife.
    Source: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Prins Philip When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
    Prins Philip
     
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  • Prince Philip When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Helen Rowland When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Sacha Guitry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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