“A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero” MotherWifeGeniusHeroGood Woman Author:Gelett Burgess
“I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.” LongMadeI CanDreamRealizingWifeGeniusNewsGoldCastsMy WifeSpeedBoatGood NewsLong LifeNominationsEmmys Author:Will Arnett
“A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.” ThinkingMenShouldMayDoeWholePassionWifeGeniusHeroTenBritishDislikeCommandmentsStatesmenTen CommandmentsTailorsGreat Hero Author:Ouida
“A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.” IfsMenWorldMayWholeSeemsEasyLevelsWifeFashionPositionGeniusHighestOriginalsRaisesWhole WorldEngagedBachelors Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.” MenShouldMadeWifeCenturyPoetGeniusFairsIndicationChloeConstancyDazzlingIrises Author:Honore de Balzac
“Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.” MenSelfPerfectWifeGeniusHusbandComfortableWorshipConsciousAngelPetOffendedSelf ConsciousEasily OffendedPerfect Husband Author:George Bernard Shaw