Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
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Related There's a place for corporate wives, but there's no place for corporate husbands. KAREN VALENSTEIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ... LYDIA MARIA CHILD The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ... LYDIA M. CHILD Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? BARBRA STREISAND American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or ca... ELINOR GLYN What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. OVID How to share leisure time is a phantom issue between husbands and wives. It is more important than m... GIRDHAR JOSHI It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha... THOMAS HARDY It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha... THOMAS HARDY TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. CHARLES INGLIS Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou... EDITH WHARTON How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often ... THOMAS SZAS I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. PATRICK MURRAY The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes DOROTHEA DIX The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. JOHN STEINBECK Changing husbands is only changing troubles. KATHLEEN NORRIS When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t... GARY F EVANS... I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts up... TERENCE Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward... SHERI L. DEW White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until th... SUSAN B. ANTHONY The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr... ERICA JONG Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and wo... ARTHUR CAPPER Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I'... CHINA MIéVILLE Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca... GEORGE MEREDITH Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca... GEORGE MEREDITH Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif... GEOFFREY CHAUCER Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do s... WILLIAM HEWLETT Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husban... ROMAN PAYNE The people can be sure that their vote will be the same as the ballot that they wrote and put in the... HASHEMI RAFSANJANI I love doing these scenes. I love that I'm the guy that went for it. I will do just about anything f... JASON BIGGS Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. JACKIE MASON Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ... BAUDELAIRE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ... MARIE CORELLI I married beneath me. All women do. CHER For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatur... COTY PERFUME AD There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu... STEPHEN STILLS Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ANONYMOUS Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! HONORE DE BALZAC My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ... LENNY BRUCE Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11]. BIBLE If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. CHEKHOV Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can be... ANONYMOUS In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. JOHNNY CARSON Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what y... ANONYMOUS Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ANONYMOUS Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ANONYMOUS It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ANONYMOUS He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. ANONYMOUS All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ANONYMOUS A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do yo... ANONYMOUS A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. ANONYMOUS Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ANONYMOUS Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...b... ANONYMOUS Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her o... ANONYMOUS Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family d... ANONYMOUS In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles sugg... ROBERT BRIFFAULT Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother... ENGLISH PROVERB An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ... HONORE DE BALZAC If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. LENNY BRUCE Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. LIN Yü-TANG I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. LADY NANCY ASTOR Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. S. T. COLERIDGE Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti... JOAN BAEZ Women like silent men. They think they're listening. MARCEL ARCHARD My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..
wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ... JOHN C LEHMAN Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. JIM BACKUS She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. EDMUND BURKE If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing... MARY FRANCES BERRY Woman was God's second mistake. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo... ROGERS The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. IRWIN COREY It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. BASKINS I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to m... DAVID BISSONETTE The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. HENRY BROOKS ADAMS On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. H. L. MENCKEN A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Bless... LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters. BARBARA WALTERS A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. JUDITH ANDERSON They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was i... CLARE BOOTH LUCE When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West. MAE WEST The society of women is the element of good manners. JONATHAN S. HAAS Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. PAULINE THOMASON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. F. M. KNOWLES Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. SAM KINISON Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. JOHN HEYWOOD I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the ... MADAME DE RIEUX Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. AMY BLOOM A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle... POOR JIMMY'S ALMANAC Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... MARY BUCKLEY Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ANNE BRADSTREET A small family is soon provided for. MARVIN KITMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit... ALEXANDER HAMILTON An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. SPANISH PROVERB To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ... THOMAS B. ALDRICH
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MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ... MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera... MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow... MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn... MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu... MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning. MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no... MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w... MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n... MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and... MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p... MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha... MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ... MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air... MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O... MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven. MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan... MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR