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There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?
Maya AngelouRead
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Arthur MillerRead
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
ChanakyaRead
I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
Elizabeth EdwardsRead
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.
Jay NeugeborenRead
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Siegfried SassoonRead
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
Bob DylanRead
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.
Herman MelvilleRead
Wives don't need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider - God!!
Nick VujicicRead
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor RooseveltRead
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
SocratesRead
What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand? _x000D_ ...but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.
Nick VujicicRead
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
ChanakyaRead
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Honore De BalzacRead
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
Mark TwainRead
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
Samuel JohnsonRead
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
Wilhelm Von HumboldtRead
They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies.
Guru Amar DasRead
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella AbzugRead
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
Ambrose BierceRead
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?
Orson Scott CardRead

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