Ehefrauen / Wives Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Ehefrauen / Wives:

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. Sarah Brightman

But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Hamlin Garland

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

With popular rulers, the wife can become the guardian of their greatness: Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. Sometimes the wives are an improvement.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Don Rickles

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

Martha Smith

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

Erich von Stroheim

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Catherine Helen Spence

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

Susan B. Anthony

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

Adam Yauch

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.

Robert Barnes

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Marilyn Monroe

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

John Barrymore

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Brett Favre

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Niki Tsongas

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

Karen Abbott

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

Franjo Tudjman

Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.

Trudie Styler

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Henny Youngman

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 unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Andrew Young

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

Nigel Dennis

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

June Allyson

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

James Caan

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Delmore Schwartz

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

Ann Hood

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

If 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