#wives

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. ↗

— John le Carré

#circumspection #husbands #marriage #married-life #separation

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed. ↗

— Juvenal

#curtain-lectures #husbands #marriage #wives #marriage

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music. ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#any #back #certainly #few #had

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska. ↗

— Kate Millett

#housewives #making #nebraska #said #sister

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#chiefly #good #husbands #lovers #their

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#care #child #child care #control #economic

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#hoard #husbands #many #men #their

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 Roosevelt

#back #behavior #campaign #car #everybody