Augustus Quotes

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.

He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.

I watch a romcom only when my wife drags me

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.