High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

- Keith Henson

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

- Niki Tsongas

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

- Navjot Singh Sidhu

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

- Mary Calderone

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

- Marion Bailey

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

- Mel Brooks

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

- May Sarton

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

- Marilyn Monroe

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

- Lord Byron

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

- Keith Henson

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

- Andres Segovia

I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.

- Kim Fields

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

- Jodi Kantor

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

- Jane Austen

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

- Jackie Kennedy

Five wives can't all be wrong.

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Groucho Marx

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.

- Bradley Wiggins