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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

I am a quick study – I can memorize a script in an hour – but I can’t remember a name three seconds. I’ve even forgotten my wife’s name on occasion.

Don Adams

American actor (1923-2005)

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

Eric Allin Cornell

American physicist, professor

A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore de Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799-1850)

I’m very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

Sally Kellerman

American actress (1937-2022)

When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Ramakrishna

Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836-1886)

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Vera Brittain

English writer (1893-1970)

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Lord Chesterfield

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

Ray Liotta

American actor (1954-2022)

A lady is nothing very specific. One man’s lady is another man’s woman; sometimes, one man’s lady is another man’s wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Russell Lynes

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