Wife Quotes

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
John Barrymore

Beautiful, Words

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater

Him, Trying, Read

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake

Religion, Politics, Two

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly

Health, Character, True

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac

Young, Flower, Guilty

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
John Barrymore

Mother, Girl, Her

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women, Wise, Brave

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen

Place, Pedestal, Tended

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus

Lost, Child, Dead

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen

Good, Truth, Single

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater

Life, Family, Political

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Nothing, Proud

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
Woody Allen

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
Kin Hubbard

Smile, Her, Seen

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller

Rather, Choose, Eye

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake

Men, Experience, Wisdom

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
Michelle Obama

Husband, Blessed, Friend

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

Men, Keep, Child

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
Steve Harvey

Woman, Give, After

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Husband, Woman

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
George Jean Nathan

Compromise, Illusion, Sweetheart

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

Beauty, Marriage, Money

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

Great, Children, Either

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot

Wise, Fool, Him

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Woman, Influence

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
P. J. O'Rourke

Except, Unfaithful, Lover

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
Richard Armour

Marriage, Husband, Children

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Ann Landers

Married, Marry, Cheats

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Daughter, Marry

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Jim Samuels

Life, Marriage, Rest

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