wives

1.

There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust.

- William Shakespeare

2.

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

- Dahlberg, Edward

3.

We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

- Reagan, Ronald

4.

If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?

- Mandeville, Bernard

5.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

- Frank, Anne

6.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

- Franklin, Benjamin

7.

The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted.

- Kin Hubbard

8.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

- Abigail Van Buren

9.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

- Bible

10.

Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

- Swinburne, A. C.

11.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or (in midwives’ phrase) a quick conception, and an easy delivery.

- Alexander Pope

12.

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

- Fuller, Thomas

13.

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.

- Byron, Lord

14.

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

- Sand, George

15.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

- Ibsen, Henrik

16.

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.

- Caecilius

17.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

- Addison, Joseph

18.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.

- Moore, Thomas

19.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

- Franklin, Benjamin

20.

If presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country.

- Brooks, Mel