“There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.” ChristianFightingChurchWifeAtheismInfluenceOughtVoteRelationPositive AtheismMy WifeCombinationExceptionBakersPresbyteriansDeistVote For Me Author:Abraham Lincoln
“There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.” MenLoveMarriageWifeCombinationSentimentalLove And MarriageCozyWedding ToastBridal ShowerWedding SentimentsMarriage ToastShort MarriageShort Wedding Author:Menander
“Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.” CharacterMotherQualityMarriageWifeDaughterCombinationMother NatureMother And Daughter Author:Lu Xun
“I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.” MenFirstsDifferentMotherThreeFatherParentWifeRocksBrotherMomDadHusbandMy DadMy MomCombinationMy BrotherOlder Brother Author:Inara George
“That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.” WantSchoolNightTeacherWifeConflictCombinationSundaySchool TeachersSunday SchoolSunday School Teacher Author:Lenny Bruce
“Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.” NeedsChildrenCharacterWifeInvolvedExperimentsFormerVarietyCombinationAbandonedNew LifeDivorcedHostilityLoathePharmaceutical Author:Richard Schickel