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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.


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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
LORD BYRON Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect per...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING In how many different cultures wives called their Husbands and named them 'Listen'!!
FAISAL KHAN Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husban...
WASHINGTON IRVING Supporting the troops means paying attention to their needs both in the field and at home. It means ...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or c...
ELINOR GLYN American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or ca...
ELINOR GLYN How to share leisure time is a phantom issue between husbands and wives. It is more important than m...
GIRDHAR JOSHI Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.
UNKNOWN Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
DELMORE SCHWARTZ The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
ENGLISH PROVERB The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
THOMAS DEKKER Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou...
EDITH WHARTON There's a place for corporate wives, but there's no place for corporate husbands.
KAREN VALENSTEIN In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Some of my patients bought it for their wives and I have even received repeat orders from these husb...
DR ROHAYA RAMLI Had the love been perennial, there won’t have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of hus...
GIRDHAR JOSHI Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
NEIL DIAMOND There are only about 20 murders a year in London and not all are serious-some are just husbands kill...
G. H. HATHERILL Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
JANE AUSTEN Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Truly in the short term, there tends to be no consequences to our act of irresponsibility. However i...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it.
KAREN ADAMS Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Their absences are excused with a signed form.
ADAM FRITZ Our children are not going to be just "our children"-they are going to be other people's husbands an...
DR. MARY S. CALDERONE Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part ...
MARCUS AURELIUS It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince ...
MELANIE RAWN There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. -...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
GILLIAN FLYNN With as much tragedy as she had, with both her husbands passing away and her two daughters, that wom...
KATE WIATROWSKI How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often ...
THOMAS SZAS Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
DOROTHEA DIX You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neithe...
LEE TREVINO I know not which lives more unnatural lives, Obeying husbands, or commanding wives
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN an energetic and cutting work that calls to mind Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives and Annie Hall .
JULIANNE MOORE Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide...
KATHERINE DUNN Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favor...
ZOE LISTER-JONES Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family&#...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I...
JERRY DELLA FEMINA The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their we...
GENGHIS KHAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their h...
CONN IGGULDEN She has called your mothers, your aunts, your grandmothers, your daughters, your sons and husbands t...
MARTHA BURK And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offen...
BIBLE If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young ...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. Ephesia...
BIBLE Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesi...
BIBLE The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their w...
GENGHIS KHAN My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love y...
J. I. PACKER And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, a...
BIBLE And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it...
BIBLE When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not...
JEREMY CLARKSON It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha...
THOMAS HARDY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husb...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A country founded on freedom should not maintain a tax code that arbitrarily places an extra burden ...
TOM DELAY There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your mai...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and...
ANDREW GROSS All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
JANICE DICKINSON Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males ...
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN And so, they wait. Mothers, wives and daughters wait to place flowers at those graves -- and to star...
BRAD JOHNSON Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL For years now we have been trying to tell our daughters that they should finish their education and ...
DR. ABEJA APUNYO We as women are all winners, whether we are daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, and that's who I ...
JACKIE WILLIAMS Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as...
BIBLE My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make thei...
CARRE OTIS Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA This forces family businesses to sometimes sell off under fire-sale conditions to come up with cash....
DICK PATTEN The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. ...
H. J. BYRON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover w...
KAREN MAITLAND The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girl...
STEPHEN MOYER Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow you...
DANIELLE STEEL Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a...
AVA DUVERNAY And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON When you go into coaching, the ultimate goal is to make the kids grow into good human beings, father...
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