Wife Quotes

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.
Lana Turner

Money, Successful, Woman

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Good, Happy, Bad

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

Husband, Same, Side

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya

Good, Morning, Mother

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Good, Husband

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Able, Ability, Brilliant

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

Home, Husband, Sorry

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert

Happy, True, Friend

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Zig Ziglar

End, Treat, Nag

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

Marriage, Wedding, Husband

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Good, Happy, Find

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Happy, Two, Learned

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Humility, Christian

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

Together, Two, Last

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Love, Someone

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan

Peace, Loyalty, Game

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield

Her, Interrupt, Spoken

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

Money, Friends, Old

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Godfrey Winn

Good, Mother, Blessed

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

Often, Both, Danger

My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali

Fight, Toughest

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

Why, Fault, Bear

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Mistress, Memory, Servant

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

Marriage, Truths, Charge

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

Successful, Woman, Her

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Friend, Adversity, While

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. Ambedkar

Husband, Friends, Between

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams

Idiot, Dreamer, Thinker

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