God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you — yet...

He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long.

Quick dinner with … Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who’s visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence...

Well, I heard he liked to eat old wives’ eggs.

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that’s none of his business), he very sweetly says that I ‘might leave a wife, but not a...

God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because...

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.

How many women are there … who because of their husbands’ harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great...

Because I love you. Because I love you so much I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time.”… “Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted...

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

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...

One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights.

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man…..poetry and fiction are based upon woman’s love, and the movements of history...

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband’s sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women...

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her...

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment–discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

I have leveled with the girls – from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt’s the living together afterward that’s tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It’s an...

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that’s what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men...

Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very colorful character named Moroni–not to be confused with the last survivor of the...

It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it,” urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.That is no excuse,” returned Mr. Brownlow. “You were present on the...

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to ‘covet thy neighbor’s wife’ clearly referred not to lust in one’s heart (adultery had already been covered in commandment number seven), but to...

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?

When you’ve made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand – she’s as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: ’tis only in the flourishes...

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

I never think of policemen’s wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking....

A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she...

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

She’s an old soldier’s woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.