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  • A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

    Girl   Mother   Wife  
  • Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

    Mother   Honesty   Wife  
  • Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

    Spiritual   Women   Long  
  • Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

    Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22
  • I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.

  • I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

    Believe   Order   Wife  
    Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.81, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

    Husband   Mean   Wife  
  • No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

    Love   Life   Friendship  
  • I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

    Blue   Blood   Wife  
  • Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

    Mother   Wife   Feminist  
    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'

    Hate   Love You   People  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

    Food   Men   Wife  
    Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.205
  • I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

    Mother   Wife   Want  
    "Peaches Geldof obituary" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2014.
  • My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.

    Two   Wife   Week  
  • Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

    Love   Family   Marriage  
    Twitter post from Nov 04, 2009
  • There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

    Wise   Jobs   Men  
    Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life by I. Walton. To which are added, the 'Christian letter' to mr. Hooker; and dr. Covel's 'Just and temperate defence' in reply to it [&c.] an intr. and notes by B. Hanbury”, p.67
  • Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

    "Nicole Ari Parker: The Good Life". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
  • My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

    "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.
  • When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

    Marriage   Husband   Wife  
  • The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

    Wife   Good Wife   Ends  
    Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.47
  • Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

    Love   Funny   Witty  
  • A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

    Marriage   Winning   Men  
    Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press
  • All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  • It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  • One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

    Smart   Heart   Men  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.273
  • You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.

    Mother   Men   Years  
  • A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

    Strong   Wife   Enough  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

    "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.
  • About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

    Blessing   Men   Thinking  
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