Desi Arnaz Quotes

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

I really don't know what it is. He is at home doing the breakfast dishes so that his wife can attend this meeting.

Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room.

I never shop - my wife takes care of all of that.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.

This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

[On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses.

God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.