“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)
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“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”
Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)
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“A good wife makes a good husband”
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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
Harold Macmillan quotes (British politician, 1894-1986)
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“All married women are not wives”
Japanese Proverb quotes
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“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)
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“There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. 1828-1910)
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“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)
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“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”
Billy Sunday quotes (American Evangelist, 1862-1935)
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“It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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"Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
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A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say "Wit, whither, wilt?"
Winnifred C. Jardine
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“All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little”
Oliver Goldsmith quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)
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“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”
Ogden Nash quotes (American Writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. 1902-1971)
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"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell”
Douglas Jerrold quotes (English Humorist, Playwright and Journalist, 1803-1857)
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“This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Sacha Guitry quotes (French Actor and Playwright, 1885-1957)
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“Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes”
Thomas Dewar quotes
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“My wife's in judge of me, Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be, I ain't been home since Friday night, And now my wife Is comin' after me”
John Entwistle quotes
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“A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.”
Jacob Epstein quotes
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“Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology”
Muriel Spark quotes
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“We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body’s needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.”
heloise1 Demosthenes quotes (Considered to be the greatest orator of ancient Greece 384-322)
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She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
William Harrison Ainsworth
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
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Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.
William Barnes
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And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go.
William Barnes
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My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met! And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labor'd words could speak.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.
George W. Bethune
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.
Bible
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Bible
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Bible
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She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Bible
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So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well.
Robert Williams Buchanan
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In thy face have I seen the eternal.
Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
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Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
Robert Burns
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
William Congreve
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What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?
William Cowper
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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
George Crabbe
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Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
George Crabbe
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In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife.
Charles Dibdin
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It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens
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You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love.
John Dryden
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Benjamin Franklin
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Kirk Douglas
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip Edinburgh
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx
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She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.
Bill Cosby
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A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
Proverb
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
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