“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
"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America" (2001)
“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
“My wife."
"By what name is she called, Kincaid?"
"Mine.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: The Bride
“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
Variant: My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Interview with Richard Bacon on XFM, 28 September 2006), as quoted in "Labour in shambles over leadership, says Cameron" in Western Mail (29 September 2006), p. 4.
2000s, 2006
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
Variant: What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
“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.