夫妻Husbands/Wives[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-15 03:11:23

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Compromise: An amiable1 arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
-- Anonymous2

 

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous

 

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous

 

Marital3 Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous

 

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress4.
-- Anonymous

 

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus

 

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming5 flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
-- Dave Barry

 

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire

 

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians6 Hall of Fame Inductions7

 

I recently read that love is entirely8 a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic9 waste.
-- David Bissonette

 

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge

 

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet

 

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce

 

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do...."
-- Lenny Bruce

 

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
-- Mary Buckley

 

Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show

 

I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg10 Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show

 

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family," U.S. television show

 

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie

 

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang11. How about "short" and "cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller

 

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain12, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic13 cards - only physics and war hold him in check. And the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
-- Encyclopaedia14 Apocryphia

 

Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin

 

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732

 

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

An ideal wife is one who remains15 faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry

 

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry

 

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser16 than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe

 

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee

 

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine

 

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx

 

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

 

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken

 

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne

 

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick17 and helps you with your girdle when your hips18 stick.
-- Ogden Nash

 

A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac

 

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland

 

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates

 

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John

 

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday

 

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner

 

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman

 

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac

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1 amiable hxAzZ     
adj.和蔼可亲的，友善的，亲切的
参考例句：
  • She was a very kind and amiable old woman.她是个善良和气的老太太。
  • We have a very amiable companionship.我们之间存在一种友好的关系。
2 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
3 marital SBixg     
adj.婚姻的，夫妻的
参考例句：
  • Her son had no marital problems.她的儿子没有婚姻问题。
  • I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题, 现在我所做的一切将给我带来无穷的烦恼。
4 mattress Z7wzi     
n.床垫，床褥
参考例句：
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
5 teeming 855ef2b5bd20950d32245ec965891e4a     
adj.丰富的v.充满( teem的现在分词 )；到处都是；（指水、雨等）暴降；倾注
参考例句：
  • The rain was teeming down. 大雨倾盆而下。
  • the teeming streets of the city 熙熙攘攘的城市街道
6 comedians efcac24154f4452751c4385767145187     
n.喜剧演员，丑角( comedian的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严，俨然是哈佛出身的气派，就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
  • He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句
7 inductions 5b19d140b5f03ff6a28e7cf5419fcd46     
归纳（法）( induction的名词复数 )； （电或磁的）感应； 就职； 吸入
参考例句：
8 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地
参考例句：
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
9 toxic inSwc     
adj.有毒的，因中毒引起的
参考例句：
  • The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
  • There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
10 peg p3Fzi     
n.木栓，木钉；vt.用木钉钉，用短桩固定
参考例句：
  • Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
  • He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
11 fang WlGxD     
n.尖牙，犬牙
参考例句：
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来，象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
12 attain HvYzX     
vt.达到，获得，完成
参考例句：
  • I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
  • His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。
13 genetic PgIxp     
adj.遗传的，遗传学的
参考例句：
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
14 encyclopaedia Jp3xC     
n.百科全书
参考例句：
  • An encyclopaedia contains a lot of knowledge.百科全书包含很多知识。
  • This is an encyclopaedia of philosophy.这是本哲学百科全书。
15 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
16 hoarser 9ce02c595aeae8aeb6c530a91eb763de     
（指声音）粗哑的，嘶哑的( hoarse的比较级 )
参考例句：
17 lipstick o0zxg     
n.口红，唇膏
参考例句：
  • Taking out her lipstick,she began to paint her lips.她拿出口红，开始往嘴唇上抹。
  • Lipstick and hair conditioner are cosmetics.口红和护发素都是化妆品。
18 hips f8c80f9a170ee6ab52ed1e87054f32d4     
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯，耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 )；[建筑学]屋脊；臀围（尺寸）；臀部…的
参考例句：
  • She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
  • They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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