The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife. " Tell them what?" That you and I were outwitted by a ropma. " That would be shamful. " Girl, we could never live it down.
I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.
My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.
This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.
I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. " She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it.
My wife and I never agree on the dishtowels. It's a matter of terms. She asks me not to put the dishtowel in the sink. So I drape it over the sink, but not in the sink. If that's our biggest problem, I think we're in good shape.
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"
My wife loves to shop at Bloomingdale's. I bring her mail there twice a week.
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.
Losing is like my ex-wife. . . it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.