Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

Barbra Streisand

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It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.

That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."

If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.

Charles Dickens

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I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

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Men are highly attracted to smiles. That includes your husband.

Debi Pearl

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Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

Juvenal

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May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Roman Payne

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On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure....

Christopher Hitchens

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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Donald Barthelme

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