Top 100 Quotes About A Good Wife
#1. Remember guls," preached Mrs. Gulbenk, always holding the most perfect red tomato in her hand for all of us to admire, "you can fry 'em, bake 'em, stew 'em, and congeal 'em. A good wife and mutha will always have a tomata on hand.:
Susan Gregg Gilmore
#2. 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
#3. I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.
Gary Player
#4. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures ...
Stephen King
#5. I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.
Heidi Klum
#6. There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.
Anna Quindlen
#7. That's what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don't believe anymore
Michael J. Sullivan
#8. A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.
Ann B. Ross
#9. It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
Honore De Balzac
#10. I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.
Amy Koppelman
#11. I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
Elisabeth Elliot
#13. Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#14. A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.
Euripides
#15. If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
#17. 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
#18. For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Hesiod
#19. I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.
Dizzy Gillespie
#20. You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.
Russell M. Nelson
#21. All means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become happy. If you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.
Preeti Shenoy
#22. I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.
Jimmy Carter
#23. A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#24. Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.
A.C. Gaughen
#25. All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.
Columba Bush
#26. We all men want a bad girl friend, but a good wife.
M.F. Moonzajer
#27. A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.
Julianna Margulies
#28. I lay there and I thought of what that teacher said, and of all the things I'd been: child, rebellious teenager, runaway, whore, lover, bad mother, bad wife. I'm not sure if I can remake myself as a good wife, but a good mother - that I have to try.
Paula Hawkins
#29. I will be a good wife," she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.
Lois T. Henderson
#31. Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.
Gisele Bundchen
#32. Oh well, I will say here,
knowing each man,
let you find a good wife too,
and love her as hard as you can.
Robert Creeley
#33. A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#34. A poor man with a good wife is happier
than a king with a harem.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. I wouldn't be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.
Gabby Bess
#36. Made no fuss and helped around the house without making a song and dance about it. She'll make Dr Fforde a good wife, reflected Aunt Leticia.
Betty Neels
#37. The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
Nancy E. Turner
#38. ...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the binding cracked. For I hold with the greatest philosophers that she who maltreats a book will never make a good wife.
Roswell Field
#39. There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time.
Catherynne M Valente
#40. My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.
Joan Collins
#41. A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.
Claude Pepper
#42. Ah, my dear, you are a good wife. You are my beauty. You are my only love.
Philippa Gregory
#43. Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
Marya Mannes
#44. A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle
#45. Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
Ace Frehley
#46. A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought
Jean Stubbs
#48. But a good wife - a good unworldly woman - may really help a man, and keep him more independent.
George Eliot
#49. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
Peaches Geldof
#50. Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness,
Stormie O'martian
#52. A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety ...
Jeremy Taylor
#53. I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.
Wynonna Judd
#55. I need you to be my foil!" she wailed. "I need someone to disagree with him, so I can agree with him and support him like a good wife should! Please, Evelyn! I cannot become a ruined spinster!
Tarun Shanker
#56. A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.
Sam Levenson
#57. 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
#58. Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.
Zen Cho
#60. People say that being a mother is the most important job you will ever have. And it is very important. But it is even more important, I believe, to be a wife, a good wife.
Heather Gudenkauf
#61. All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
#62. I know that I won't succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.
Drew Barrymore
#63. The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
Howard Nemerov
#64. Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Joseph Addison
#65. 14People receive houses and money from their parents, but a good wife is a gift from the LORD.
Anonymous
#66. [Dust]
Agatha Morley
all her life
grumbled at dust
like a good wife
...
Six feet under
the earth she lies
with dust at her feet
and dust in her eyes.
Sydney King Russell
#67. A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
Samuel Johnson
#68. He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
Andre Maurois
#69. Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kin Hubbard
#71. I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.
LeAnn Rimes
#72. She leaned forward on the table and said, I know we are having a tough time. I still love you so much, Nick, and I know I have a lot of things to work on. I want to be a good wife to you, and I want you to be my husband and be happy. But you need to decide what you want.
Gillian Flynn
#73. Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.
Claire Tomalin
#74. The most #happy is he to whom #ALLAH has given a good #wife.
Ali R.A
#75. For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
Hesiod
#76. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.
Cherie Blair
#78. Poverty and nakedness are nothing, provided you have a good wife
Nikos Kazantzakis
#79. Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.
Joyce Banda
#80. A good wife keeps you happy in bed, but a better wife keeps you happier even out of the bed.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.
Simonides Of Ceos
#82. Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides Of Ceos
#83. Hope. That's what...that's what a good wife would do. But there's also a time to ...cry.' She reached out and touched him gently on the cheek. Her hand was soft, but far too warm. The last tender caress was both the warmest and the coldest touch All on ever remembered.
Julius Bailey
#84. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
James Boswell
#85. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.
Rachel Cohn
#86. When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Al Goldstein
#87. I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.
Rick Bragg
#88. That never goes over big with your wife. I will be a very good husband for a change.
Donald Trump
#89. My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy
#90. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but I believe that one of the key factors in being a good sister wife is having the ability to see the needs of another sister wife and considering her needs more important than your own.
Meri Brown
#91. Besides, if he wants kids, Gale won't have any trouble finding a wife. He's good-looking, he's strong enough to handle the
Suzanne Collins
#92. The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next.
Jung Yun
#93. I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
Archie Panjabi
#94. The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.
Zhang Zhao
#95. Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.
Karen Hawkins
#96. I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
John Lithgow
#97. Masters, it is good pastime to have a wife. When they have listened
Hilary Mantel
#98. Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
G.K. Chesterton
#99. I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it's ... there's good sides and there's bad sides ... I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.
Lisa Vanderpump
#100. Either Mitch goes with me ... or get used to finding your wife hiding in trees."
"That's just mean."
"I'm a Smith. What did you expect?"
"Good point.
Shelly Laurenston
