“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

“There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.”

“I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.”

“British women can't cook.”

“Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?”

“And you can't go, "There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. Can I see the cook, please?" The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe.”

“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”

“Enya is more than just me. It's also Nicky, who arranges my melodies, and his wife Roma, who writes the lyrics. They believed in my music from day one”