#wife

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#day #entire #first #get #helping

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated. ↗

— Glenn Close

#book #dated #filming #i #i think