{"quotes":[{"text":"Wives?' she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, 'None active,' as if wives were volcanoes.","author":"John le Carré","tags":["caution","circumspection","husbands","marriage","married-life","separation","wives"],"id":1298,"author_id":"John+le+Carr%C3%A9"},{"text":"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advices","advise","aphorism","aphorisms","counsel","counseling","counselling","counsellor","counsellors","counselor","counselors","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorcees","experience","extended-families","extended-family","families","family","fool","foolish","fools","humor","humour","husband","husbands","learn","learned","lesson","lessons","love","lover","lovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","marriage","marriage-proposal","marriage-proposals","married","marry","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","proposal","proposals","propose","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","useful","usefulness","useless","uselessness","wife","wisdom","wise","wives"],"id":9822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.","author":"Jim George","tags":["children","christian","church","deal","discernment","family","father","god","godly","heart","husband","issues","life","man","men","spirit","wives"],"id":10644,"author_id":"Jim+George"},{"text":"Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["patriarchy","wife","wife-and-husband","wives","women","women-s-roles"],"id":22743,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["marriage","marriage-advice","wife","wives"],"id":28785,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-proverb","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","husband","husbands","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","marriage","marriage-life","matrimony","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","wedding","wife","wives"],"id":32713,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["bachelorhood","classics","marriage","men","possessiveness","single-men","wives","women"],"id":37135,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"My wife is a thief...She takes the last cookieTakes forever to get readyShe takes her time in the showerTakes all of the hot waterShe takes my favorite seat on the couchTakes the high road when I lose controlMy wife is a thief...She took my last nameTook the time to get to know me, love meShe took the back seat and let me leadTook on motherhood and the emotional toll that it bringsShe took care of me the many times that I've gotten sickTook on the pain of pregnancy so that the Jackson legacy would live onMy wife takes, and takes, and takes...I'm so proud of my perpetual thief who stole my heart and won't give it back.","author":"David Jackson","tags":["family","family-relationships","love","love","lovers","marriage","motherhood","mothers","poet","poetry","poetry","wife","wives","women","womens-inspirational","womens-strength"],"id":37592,"author_id":"David+Jackson"},{"text":"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["husbands","jane","love","marriage","wives"],"id":39772,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["abilities","clichés","double-standards","empowerment","equality","feminism","feminist","gender","greatness","human-nature","husbands","hypocrisy","integrity","men","men-and-women","misogyny","penina-mezei","skills","stereotypes","strong","wives","women"],"id":55617,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}