Best Quotes About Wife (Top 100)
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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
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
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As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
James Joyce
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
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My wife and I were happy for twenty year. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield
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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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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
Lucretia Mott
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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
Gary Smalley
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There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
Raymond Carver
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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
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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kin Hubbard
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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
Augustus
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When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all — cash, booze, and a wife — he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.
Denis Johnson
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug
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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
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Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
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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
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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
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Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.
Gaston Leroux
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A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Lucy Stone
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
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Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .
Jackie Mason
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
Aaron Spelling
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
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Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Damon Hill
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase
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Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Marc Anthony
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My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Les Dawson
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
David Ogilvy
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The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
George Gilder
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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
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
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The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.
Germaine Greer
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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn
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I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
Henny Youngman
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It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.
Colin Firth
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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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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
Ace Frehley
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
Andres Segovia
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No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
Eric Berne
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I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
Bob Monkhouse
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
Howard Nemerov
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge
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When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
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Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
Joan Rivers
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In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
Bruce Willis
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Elizabeth Taylor
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
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As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.
Corazon Aquino
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield
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Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
Buddy Guy
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
John Barrymore
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My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Albrecht Durer
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You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women
Leon Uris
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
Barbara Cartland
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Ann Rule
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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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My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.
Henny Youngman
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Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
Joseph Cook
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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas de Quincey
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus
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American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Elinor Glyn
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn
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My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
John Barrymore
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Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.
Delia Ephron
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More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.
Robert M. Hutchins
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She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.
Kevin Pietersen
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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
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There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.
Charlotte Whitton
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali
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I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
Cedric Hardwicke
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
William Cowper
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Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
John N. Mitchell
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To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
Lord Chesterfield
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My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.
Jerry Goldsmith
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England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke
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People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
Jim Bouton
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
Barry Mann
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It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.
Howard Stern