Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive.
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
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.
Francis Herbert Bradley
Although that's not surprising, given that voters were accompanied into the booths by Saddam's Ba'ath party officials, and given a choice between voting for Saddam or voting for their wives and children to be killed, and their houses to be burnt down.
Rory Bremner
I AM morally superior than twits who forces wives, daughters & sisters to wrap themselves in mobile tents.
Tarek Fatah
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
George Sand
Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking; soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving the world.
Brian Wilson Aldiss
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph Addison
If we have violated any law, it was not done intentionally. We have injured no man's reputation, character, person, or property.We were meeting together to preserve ourselves, our wives, and our children from utter degradation and starvation.
George Loveless
If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
The directors of Synthank were eating an enormous luncheon to celebrate the launching of their new product. Some of them wore the plastic face-masks popular at the time. All were elegantly slender, despite the rich food and drink they were putting away. Their wives were elegantly slender, despite the food and drink they too were putting away. An earlier and less sophisticated generation would have regarded them as beautiful people, apart from their eyes.
Brian Wilson Aldiss
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Benjamin Franklin
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives
Siegfried Sassoon
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon