Quotes with farm-wife

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  • Pearl S. Buck The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Earl Rochester The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
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  • John Gay The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • David Ogilvy The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Lord George Byron The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • George Orwell The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Will Durant The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Billy Williams The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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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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