Top 100 Quotes About A Wife
#3. Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
Helen Rowland
#4. I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!
Tom Hanks
#5. Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H.L. Mencken
#7. In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
George Whyte-Melville
#8. #
# My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.
Mark Driscoll
#9. But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.
Sue Monk Kidd
#10. Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.
Timothy Shay Arthur
#11. Fire Orchid patted his cheek. Lucky for you, you don't need worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.
Michael Swanwick
#12. Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
Hudson Taylor
#13. I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
Alicia Keys
#14. There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Charles Dudley Warner
#16. I want to play football for as long as my body will let me, and for as long as I can do a good job at it. And I want a wife. A son. Maybe another kid.
Jaci Burton
#17. When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any
Immanuel Kant
#18. I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
Franz Grillparzer
#19. Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.
Margaret Brownley
#20. Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life!
Kristen McKee
#21. Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.
Al McGuire
#22. 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
#23. What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
Betty Ford
#24. Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed ... And if I am not a good man, I have no just right in this Church to a wife or wives, or the power to propagate my species. What then should be done with me? Make a eunuch of me, and stop my propagation.
Heber C. Kimball
#25. She'd never really liked the book. It seemed to her that it tried to tell her what to do and what to think. Don't stray from the path, don't open that door, but hate the wicked witch because she is wicked. Oh, and believe that shoe size is a good way of choosing a wife.
Terry Pratchett
#26. PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation ... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
Ambrose Bierce
#27. I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
Whitney Houston
#28. What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.
Brenda Ueland
#30. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...
Christopher Hitchens
#31. My nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.
Elizabeth Peters
#32. After we hung up, I took the joint. If I was going to die here, in the creepy basement out of a horror movie, in an epic snowstorm that was like an icy prison, with a wife unwilling to pretend-like Bananarama to maybe save her husband's life, I should at least go out with a smile on my face.
Eric Spitznagel
#33. Well my favorite thing about being a mom is getting to relive your childhood all over again, that's one of my favorite things. And my favorite thing about being a wife? I have more freedom to just be crazy, because he's already stuck with me.
Nicole Richie
#34. I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.
Joe Mantegna
#35. A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
Eugene Delacroix
#36. There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.
Henry Rollins
#38. 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
#39. No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill
#40. In addition, he was surprised to admit, he trusted her not to stab him in his sleep. These seemed like good qualities to have in a wife.
Kel Kade
#41. People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are.
Michelle Obama
#42. FALSTAFF
Where's Bardolph?
Page
He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.
FALSTAFF
I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in
Smithfield: an' I could get me but a wife in the
stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived.
William Shakespeare
#43. The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
D.H. Lawrence
#44. I am a secret. That is all I will ever be. Everyone in this kingdom is asking the question of the reason behind your delay in taking a wife and that is dangerous for me. - Sari
Ray Anyasi
#46. Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
Anthony Trollope
#47. You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife.
- Marc to Olivia
Lauren Dane
#48. Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
Benjamin Franklin
#49. In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children.
Leo Tolstoy
#50. I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.
Fran Lebowitz
#51. Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.
Chris Rock
#52. A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
Bilal Philips
#53. This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Adam Sandler
#54. Man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known
Jane Austen
#55. How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day
Thomas Flatman
#56. Might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.
Philippa Gregory
#57. I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.
Alex Meraz
#58. There may be a hundred reasons that a husband is not fulfilling his role as the head of the home. But a wife who rebels against her head is only introducing a new element of spiritual sickness and dysfunction into the family.
Tony Evans
#59. I have a son and a wife, and I really enjoy my family life as much as I enjoy my career, but there are times where my career just kind of overpowers, and they have to be really very understanding of it. I appreciate them for that. That's probably the hardest part about everything.
Wiz Khalifa
#60. How much longer are we going to do this? We have to talk about what happened."
With a harsh laugh, he'd turned to me. "It's very simple. I want you, you want another, and I'm owed a wife.
Kresley Cole
#61. What genius decided to call that particular piece of clothing a "wife beater"? It's not a wife beater. It's a vagina arouser. A drool inducer. A panty destroyer. Fricking
Leisa Rayven
#62. He doesn't need a donkey," says Ana Kuya. "He has a wife.
Leigh Bardugo
#63. Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Martin Andersen Nexo
#64. A wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
Jonathan Swift
#65. It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
Samuel Johnson
#66. Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson
#68. There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and a child, and all these things get in the way of his enlightenment. So, yeah, I have no chance of being enlightened.
Larkin Grimm
#69. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.
David Mamet
#70. Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
Billy Strayhorn
#71. I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
James Brown
#72. The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed.
Soren Kierkegaard
#73. I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
Cris Judd
#74. Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, 'You must not go off and visit library ladies'?
Alexander McCall Smith
#75. It was smaller than the Kidwells', and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. ("It's the only way we can keep the kids pacified.
Truman Capote
#76. The best thing for a bachelor is to get a wife who will really cooperate in the great work.
Samael Aun Weor
#77. I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
Rainn Wilson
#78. And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
Philip Massinger
#79. A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete
John Steinbeck
#80. Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.
Kim Harrison
#81. Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
#82. I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins
#83. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His
Stephanie Dray
#84. Well," she said, "I should think it would do every man good to have a wife who isn't as in awe of him as everyone else is. Somebody has to keep you humble.
Brandon Sanderson
#85. A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
Honore De Balzac
#86. Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.
Elizabeth George
#87. When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
George Bernard Shaw
#88. A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!
Dada Bhagwan
#90. She'd been imagining for the last fifteen or more years that if you disappeared, if you abandoned a wife and child, you did so for a better life: more happiness, more sex, more money, more of whatever was missing from your previous life.
Julian Barnes
#91. For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
Karl Marlantes
#92. Mistake to choose clothes rather than a mistake choosing a wife
Blasio Kajuna
#93. Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
George Herbert
#94. Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pu
Robert A. Heinlein
#95. In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#96. How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!
Gwen Stefani
#97. Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.
Gloria Steinem
#98. I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#99. Native nations were often matrilineal: that is, clan identity passed through the mother, and a husband joined a wife's household, not vice versa. Matrilineal does not mean matriarchal, which, like patriarchal, assumes that some group has to dominate - a failure of the imagination.
Gloria Steinem
#100. I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
Vera Farmiga
