Wife Quotes

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Work, Best

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
P. J. O'Rourke

Family, Two, Both

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller

Best, Worst, Fortune

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Happy, Him

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

Alone, Mother, Husband

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Germaine Greer

Husband, Her, Security

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar

Above, Suspicion, Caesar

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Together, Days

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

Thou, Thy, Conquest

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter

Wanted, Often, Swimming

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty

Change, Two, Able

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
Henny Youngman

Her, She, Finding

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence

Happiness, Live, Blessed

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Christopher Walken

Love, Nice, Character

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
Henry Rollins

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
Richard Pryor

Home, Trying, Keep

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana

Character, Live, May

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski

Life, Single, Married

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor

Home, Children, Loves

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt

Job, Doubt, Goal

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Love, Church, Greater

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
Les Paul

Good, Beautiful, Person

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
James M. Barrie

Done, High, Himself

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.
Ellen DeGeneres

Men, School, Small

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith

Husband, Wants, Pitied

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus

Single, Doubt, Free

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Samuel Richardson

Heart, Often, Handsome

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante

Her, She, Speech

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