“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 64
“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.”
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)
“I hope the first bootlegger I get is not the 'first woman bootlegger”
Quoted in various newspaper articles, e.g. Albuquerque Morning Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.), February 16, 1922 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031081/1922-02-16/ed-1/seq-7/, and The Bridgeport Times, February 18, 1922 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92051227/1922-02-18/ed-1/seq-10/
11 Amazing Quotes From Cate Blanchett, Marie Claire, 13 November 2014 https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marie-claire/news-and-views/celebrity/a/25503850/11-amazing-quotes-from-cate-blanchett/,
Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Variant: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
“Get there first with the most men.”
Reported by General Basil W. Duke and Richard Taylor
Often erroneously reported as "Git thar fustest with the most mostest." In The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 272, the phrase he used has also been reported to have been "I always make it a rule to get there first with the most men" and "I just took the short cut and got there first with the most men."
1860s
From Self Magazine, December 2010