George Farquhar Quotes

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.

I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

I'm one of those people who tells my wife, "No coaching from the sidelines."

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own.

I once overheard the sweetest old woman behind me on a train tell her adorable old husband as he scoffed down a ham sandwich she had brought along, "If you ever yell at me to "stop bringing a ham sandwich with me every where we go" again? Next time I'm bringing a gun. And I'm blowing your God damn head off."

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.