Quotes with farm-wife

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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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  • Bob Dylan There's seven people dead
    On a South Dakota farm
    Somewhere in the distance
    There's seven new people born
    Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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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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  • Carl Sandburg They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
    Source: Chicago l. 6 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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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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  • Ann Veneman This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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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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  • 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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