Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography (2002)
“My wife said she'd never heard me singing in the bath until last week.”
Norman Lamont (1942) British politician
Anatole Kaletsky, "Lamont looks on the bright side", The Times, 22 September 1992.
At a press conference in Washington DC, 21 September 1992. The event "last week" was 'Black Wednesday'.
“And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago…”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
Trying to make a joke, 26 June 2008 http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jun/27/mccains-yucca-song-and-dance/ <br class="br">2000s, 2008
“I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife.”
Ted Haggard (1956) American minister
Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1554388,00.html, accessed November 4, 2006
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/7004282.stm <br class="br">Chelsea FC
“I will not … that my wife be so much as suspected.”
Julius Caesar (-100–-44 BC) Roman politician and general
His declaration as to why he had divorced his wife Pompeia, when questioned in the trial against Publius Clodius Pulcher for sacrilege against Bona Dea festivities (from which men were excluded), in entering Caesar's home disguised as a lute-girl apparently with intentions of a seducing Caesar's wife; as reported in Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius by Plutarch, as translated by Thomas North, p. 53
Variant translations:
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
After his Yorkshire Terrier had issues with customs. <br class="br"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/7004282.stm <br class="br">Chelsea FC
“I believe that my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world.”
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Pratim D. Gupta
“My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.”
Henny Youngman (1906–1998) American comedian
"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America" (2001)
