Wilson Mizner Quotes

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

Wilson Mizner

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Life
  • Control
  • Marriage

• One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Wine

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Home
  • Me
  • Dad

• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Great
  • Husband
  • Devil

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Mom

• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fear

• Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Important
  • Home
  • Marriage

• 'Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Night
  • Me
  • Husband

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Service

• I believe in traditional marriage.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • I Believe

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Sleep
  • Environment
  • Dog

• Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Why
  • Want
  • Marriage

• The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Men
  • Leadership

• The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Sleep
  • Marriage
  • Husband