Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Wives are people who think it's against the law not to answer the phone when it rings.
Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.
He tells old wives' tales much to the point.
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you.
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O. K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away.
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen. " [From a column dated November 17, 1928]
Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)
Badly off as the men. . . were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their loins immortal spirits: when their families become numerous, they organize new worlds for them. [T]hey place their families upon the same.
Two beheadings out of six wives is too many.