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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Lord Byron
Sometimes
Run
Husbands
Absences
Daughters
Wives
Off
Grow
Butler
The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
Louise Nurding
Son
Nursery
Kids
Something
Count
Knees
Footballers
Know
Wives
Hands
Want
Converse
Working
Teachers
Useful
Teaching
Jeans
Her
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
Me
Gave
Benefit
Sold
Hopes
More
Allowance
Lord
Wives
Hearing
Owners
Estate
Estates
Should
Many
Thereby
Amongst
Receive
I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.
Margaret Trudeau
People
Strong
Politicians
Pressures
Only
Fact
Wives
Very
Ask
Tolerant
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe
Good
Husbands
Betraying
Wives
Chiefly
Lovers
Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.
Matthew Nable
Remember
Stress
Men
Back
Relevant
Fact
Until
How
Surface
Wives
Condition
Lot
Very
Walking
Behaved
Children
Required
Disorder
My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop.
Michael Korda
Matter
Father
Long
Drop
Enough
Easier
Hungarian
Brothers
Mentioned
Never
Foreign
Wives
Were
His
Exotic
Begin
Being
Children
Asked
English
Found
Jewish
I go to the grocery store with my wife. She goes off to buy something. Where is she, anyways? So I ask the manager, 'What aisle do they keep the wives in?'
Mort Walker
Buy
Wife
Aisle
Something
She
Wives
Go
Off
Goes
Manager
Where
Store
Ask
Grocery
Grocery Store
Keep
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
Naomi Wolf
Guilt
Reading
Own
Our
Presidential
Secretly
Instead
Feel
Journals
Over
Policy
Wives
Campaign
Often
Candidates
Information
Fascination
Star
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero
Art
Suits
Old
Thought
Men
About
Know
Comedians
Talking
Wives
Coming
Were
Just
Midwest
Old Men
The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.
Naveen Patnaik
Beatles
Advice
Matters
India
Various
Wives
Were
Wanted
Here
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Nigel Dennis
Few
Think
Reckless
Drastic
Kind
Would
Wives
Shift
Encouraged
Career
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.
Peter Bergen
War
Compound
Wives
His
Lines
End
Surrounded
Died
Front
Front Lines
Children
In The End
Suburban
Far
Holy
Bin
Some people don't have the luxury to see a future without the man, as they are dependent on him. That's because they put their education or priorities aside to be mothers or wives to somebody.
Pooja Bhatt
Education
Future
Man
People
Luxury
Some People
Somebody
See
Some
Put
Him
Because
Without
Priorities
Mothers
Wives
Dependent
Aside
When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives.
Prabal Gurung
Women
Wear
Kinds
Girly
Color
Like
Looked
Print
Feminine
Wives
Came
Were
America
Who
Serious
Second
Two
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.
Randall Kennedy
Woman
Sometimes
White
Assumption
Married
Would
Would-Be
Blacks
Primarily
Almost
Institutions
Wives
Much
Who
Many
Elite
I'm on backslapping terms with everyone from Sanjay Dutt to Sanjay Kapoor. That's why wives never feel threatened by my presence in their husband's lives. They know if I'm their husband's friend, I'm the wife's buddy as well.
Raveena Tandon
Wife
Husband
Everyone
Threatened
Never
Feel
Buddy
Know
Terms
Well
Wives
Friend
Why
Lives
Presence
I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church.
Rick Scott
Wife
Church
Everything
Married
Got
Wives
Methodist
Up
Get
Want
Grew
Baptist
It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.
Sandra Fluke
Consequences
Our
Ourselves
About
Between
Knows
Mothers
Disconnect
Wives
Happening
Unfortunate
Public
Means
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Virtues
Faults
Husbands
Excess
Wives
Caused
Often
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Future
Men
Husbands
Wives
Hoard
Many
We have people on the road with us - our wives, our families and pastors. We come alongside each other, and we're always in prayer.
Sonny Sandoval
Prayer
People
Other
Our
Road
Alongside
Come
Always
Wives
Pastors
Families
Us
Each
The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.
Stephen Moyer
Men
Girl
Teenage
Teenage Girls
About
Daughters
Throwing
True
Contained
True Blood
Parties
Making
Wives
Questioned
Blood
Bloody
Get
Stopped
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Appeal
Whose
Street
Thing
On Twitter, there'll be fans of 'Army Wives' and people who say, 'I've been following you since 'Supernatural,' I loved you on 'Person of Interest,'' and it's really cool to get that love. To them, I'm not just an overnight success.
Sterling K. Brown
Success
Love
You
Army
People
Fans
Twitter
Say
Following
Supernatural
Since
Wives
Overnight
Overnight Success
Been
Person
Get
Just
Loved
Interest
Them
Really
Who
Cool
Men get together, and they complain about their wives because it's what they feel they're supposed to do. It's as phony as your frat-buddy's stupid tribal tattoos, and everybody knows it.
Steven Crowder
Together
Tribal
Men
Stupid
Complain
Everybody
Phony
About
Feel
Supposed
Knows
Because
Wives
Get
Get Together
Tattoos
Your
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
Steven Moffat
You
Experience
Men
Worried
Pretty
Take
Most
Wives
Frightened
Disgusted
Aside
Pregnant
Whole
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