It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Norman Mailer

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant

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

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Jim Valvano

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
Haile Gebrselassie

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton

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

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
Bruce Springsteen

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
Dale Earnhardt

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

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Steven Tyler

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

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank