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

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Elinor Glyn

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

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore Dreiser

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
Keith Henson

But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn

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

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

Five wives can't all be wrong.
Paul Getty

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
Margaret Cavendish

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
John Gay

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
John Bunny

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Keith Henson

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

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