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Definition of Wives

Wives

of Wife

pl. of Wife.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny Youngman

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
Brett Favre

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
James Caan

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore

Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.
David Letterman

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.
Clara Zetkin

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
Joe Namath

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
Kim Cattrall

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas

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