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4[[folder:Comic Books]]
5->''"I know, right? It's great! She tells me what to do, where to go, and what to think. And we almost never have sex. Like, ''ever''. Wives are great."''
6-->-- '''{{ComicBook/Deadpool}}''', ''Deadpool & Cable: Split Second'' #2
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8
9[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
10->'''Santanico Pandemonium:''' Welcome to slavery.\
11'''Seth:''' No thanks; I've already had a wife.
12-->--''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''
13
14->'''Larry the Cable Guy:''' How'd Connie take it?\
15'''Bill Engvall:''' Let me put it this way; I'll be safer in Iraq.
16-->--''Film/DeltaFarce''
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19[[folder:Literature]]
20->''It was strange that a man among men was so helpless against a woman. He had something beaten and pitiful about him as he lay there. I thought it boded ill for us.''
21-->-- '''Literature/TheHighCrusade'''
22
23->'''Sybil''': And you will try to look dignified, won't you?\
24'''Vimes''': Yes, dear.\
25'''Sybil''': ''What'' will you try to look?\
26'''Vimes''': Dignified, dear.\
27'''Sybil''': And please try to be diplomatic.\
28'''Vimes''': Yes, dear.\
29'''Sybil''': ''What'' will you try to be?\
30'''Vimes''': Diplomatic, dear.\
31'''Sybil''': You're using your "henpecked" voice, Sam.\
32'''Vimes''': Yes, dear.
33-->--'''Sir Samuel and Lady Sybil Vimes''' in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
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35->''Antonia brought out a big boxful of photographs: she and Anton in their wedding clothes, holding hands; her brother Ambrosch and his very fat wife, who had a farm of her own, and who bossed her husband, I was delighted to hear...''
36-->-- '''Jim Burden''', ''Literature/MyAntonia''
37
38->''He could have killed Egroamaro without the spell, he considered, but he could not have survived his wife.''
39-->-- ''Literature/TheElderScrollsInUniverseBooks'', [[https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Silence Silence]]
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41->''Wilma knew that she had cowed her husband, but she had no idea to how great an extent. He did not just live in fear of her; he lived in ''awe'' of her, as natives in certain tropical climes that supposedly lived in awe and superstitious dread of the Great God Thunder Mountain, which might brood silently over their sunny lives for years or even generations before suddenly exploding in a murderous tirade of burning lava.''
42-->-- ''Literature/NeedfulThings''
43
44->''Oh, we get along. She lets me have my own way, and later I find out I've done just what she wanted me to do.''
45-->-- ''Literature/BeyondThisHorizon''
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47->'''Danny's father:''' I don't blame [[TheAlcoholic him]] one bit. If I was unlucky enough to be married to Mrs. Snoddy, I would drink something a bit stronger than gin.\
48'''Danny:''' What would you drink, Dad?\
49'''Danny's father:''' Poison.
50-->-- ''Literature/DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld''
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53[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
54->'''Amy:''' Do you get the feeling that you're forgetting something important, something incredibly big and monumental?\
55'''Rory:''' Yep.\
56'''Amy:''' Are you just saying that because you're afraid of me?\
57'''Rory:''' Yep.\
58'''Amy:''' I love you.\
59'''Rory:''' Yep. --[[DuckSeasonRabbitSeason Wait, no!]] I love you too!
60-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho''
61
62->'''Tim:''' What does your husband do?\
63'''Mary Whitehouse:''' He keeps his distance.
64-->-- ''Series/TheGoodies''
65
66->''"Too many compromises. You want to watch the karo-net game, she wants to listen to music, so you ''compromise'': You listen to music. You like Earth jazz, she prefers Klingon opera, so you compromise. You listen to Klingon opera. So here you were, ready to have a nice night watching karo-net and you wind up spending an agonizing evening listening to Klingon opera."''
67-->-- '''Odo''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E04AManAlone A Man Alone]]"
68
69->'''Dalton:''' You don't believe that there are beings keeping an eye on where we are and what we're doing, and know exactly what we're thinking?\
70'''Red:''' Yeah, but they're called "wives", Dalton.
71-->-- ''Series/TheRedGreenShow''
72
73->"If he wants to be my husband, this is the kind of stuff that he needs to put up with."
74-->-- '''[[Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart Nattie]]''', ''Series/TotalDivas'' ("Divas on Overdrive")
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77[[folder:Music]]
78->''But in the town it was well known\
79when they get home at night their fat and psychopathic wives\
80would thrash them within inches of their lives''
81-->-- '''Music/PinkFloyd''', "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", ''Music/TheWall''
82
83->''Some people work for a living\
84Some people work for fun; girl, I just work for you\
85They told me marriage was a give and take\
86Well, you've shown me you can take; you've got some giving to do\
87And now you tell me that you're having my baby?\
88I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to\
89But one step further, and my back will break\
90If my best isn't good enough, then how can it be good enough for two?''
91-->-- '''Music/{{WHAM}}''', "Everything She Wants"
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93
94[[folder:Theatre]]
95->''"A word of advice: never fall in love during a total eclipse."''
96-->-- '''Senex''', ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum''
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99[[folder:Video Games]]
100->''"I fought fair and won the day. If only that held true in the household..."''
101-->-- '''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Trevor Belmont]]''', ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment''
102
103->''"If we pull back anymore, my wife's gonna kill me!"''
104-->-- '''[[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Meng Huo]]''', ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 4''
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106
107[[folder:Web Original]]
108->''Tenchi is more like whomever {{Music/Madonna}} marries. Just dragged along for the ride.''
109-->--'''[[http://spoonyexperiment.com/tenchi-muyo/ Christopher Kinsey]]''' on ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''
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111->''I want those toilets shined so bright I can see my face in them, Tommy. I actually believe that Tom Brady goes home to Gisele and is basically her slave. After spending all week telling shitty receivers what to do and calling out blocking assignments for undrafted linemen, I bet he would like nothing more than to go home, relinquish control of everything, and let his wife kick his ass all over the place. Real ''[[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades]]''-type shit, with stiletto heels up his ass and everything.''
112-->--'''Drew Magary''', [[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-new-england-patriots-1629216508 "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: New England Patriots"]]
113
114->''She was married to Denis Thatcher, who pickled himself to death with alcohol as a form of socially acceptable suicide.''
115-->-- ''Rational Wiki''on UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher
116
117->''{{Music/Paul|McCartney}} is currently involved in a hideous divorce with that witch Heather Mills and that may be the reason for his heart drama. I'm surprised Heather didn't burst into the operating room to steal his nuts. Yeah, what am I saying? She practically already has those.''
118-->-- '''[[http://dlisted.com/2008/01/02/paul-mccartney-flushes-the-fat-out/ Michael K.]]''', "Too bad he can't have the same kind of procedure to flush Heather Mills out of his life"
119
120->''A fun thing about being married to someone for a long time is that you become ''extremely'' well attuned to all their annoying little habits, to the point that you can call your spouse out on them before they even do them — a move that they almost certainly consider to be one of ''your ''annoying little habits.''
121-->-- ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' [[https://joshreads.com/2020/11/stop-meddling-from-the-meddlee-slot-tommy/ on]] ''Dustin''
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123
124[[folder:Real Life]]
125->''A man can either be a happy rabbit or a lonely lion.''
126-->--'''Arabic proverb'''
127
128->''Being a strong women and having a strong marriage don't necessarily go together. I've known some famous women who had husbands who were like valets.''
129-->--'''Alan King''', ''Name Dropping''
130
131->''Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.''\
132''Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine follow women.''
133-->-- '''Groucho Marx'''
134[[/folder]]

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