Quotes About A Wife

#1. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#2. I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set. - Author: David Walton

#3. Anti-narrative sequences of a man (Watt) sitting in a dark bedroom drinking bourbon while his wife (Heath) and an Amway representative (Johnson) have acrobatic coitus in the background's lit hallway. - Author: David Foster Wallace

#4. My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure. - Author: Bill Bailey

#5. This is hell,
but I planned it. I sawed it,
I nailed it, and I
will live in it until it kills me.
I can nail my left palm
to the left-hand crosspiece but
I can't do everything myself.
I need a hand to nail the right,
a help, a love, a you, a wife. - Author: Alan Dugan

#6. I lay curled in a fetal position one night, listening to my wife's voice. In the evenings, she just talked, speaking light into my darkness by reading verses to me. I needed a touchstone and she knew it, so she kept gently pointing toward Christ. She set aside her fears to speak into my own. - Author: Ben Palpant

#7. If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company. - Author: Jean Reno

#8. Little Britain ... ever since it first came on ... I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain. - Author: Paul Feig

#9. The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. - Author: Robert Duvall

#10. I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. - Author: Ronnie Wood

#12. A man awakes every morning
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly. - Author: B.J. Ward

#13. A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse. - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#14. There Is Nothing More Dangerous On Planet Earth Than A Black Wife - Author: Keegan-Michael Key

#15. 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 - Author: Suzanne Collins

#16. 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. - Author: Chanakya

#17. the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like. - Author: Sam Miller

#18. My wife has a whim of iron - Author: Oliver Herford

#19. That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.' - Author: Jay Leno

#20. He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business. - Author: Kate Chopin

#21. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't. - Author: Ayn Rand

#22. GRATIANO
I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind.
NERISSA
It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home. - Author: William Shakespeare

#23. My wife had only been dead for a few months, and already random ass women were trying to fill her shoes. - Author: Jessica N. Watkins

#24. In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing. - Author: Brendan Behan

#25. I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films. - Author: Rick Moody

#26. I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I'll miss my best friend or your child, who was every inch a son to me. - Author: Fiona McIntosh

#27. I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. - Author: Stanislaw Lem

#28. There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years. - Author: Liang Chow

#29. As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. - Author: Jim Gaffigan

#30. My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy. - Author: Josh McDowell

#31. What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel - Author: Francine Prose

#32. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead. - Author: Hilary Mantel

#33. I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible! - Author: Gary Paulsen

#34. This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man. - Author: Pope Francis

#35. My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg. - Author: Rodney Dangerfield

#36. 18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. - Author: Anonymous

#37. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle. - Author: Anthony Liccione

#38. You can still go home a loyal wife. - Warren Brown - Author: T.M. Williams

#39. Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors. - Author: Corey Ford

#40. My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day. - Author: Gary Sinise

#41. Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife. - Author: Barbara Longley

#42. My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker. - Author: William The Silent

#43. My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.' - Author: Josh Cooke

#44. My wife has them all in a vault ... a copy of every album. - Author: Jerry Goldsmith

#45. In the future I man a lighthouse with my wife, daughter, and father-in-law. We send out a great beam of light every night even though no one ever sees it. - Author: Matthew Quick

#46. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. - Author: Rachel Corrie

#47. Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. - Author: Gerald Durrell

#48. Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker? - Author: Joan Rivers

#49. This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart. - Author: Dick Armey

#50. Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day. - Author: James L. Brooks

#51. My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce. - Author: Milton Berle

#52. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels. - Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

#53. 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. - Author: Al Goldstein

#54. I'll usually stay up a little later than my wife and play Xbox, a little 'Modern Warfare 3.' Or I'll have a friend over, and we'll play board games until late at night. I'll always choose fun over sleep. - Author: Rich Sommer

#55. I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes. - Author: Steve Daines

#56. A corporal, who had lost an eye after two years on the Russian front, ascertained before we marched that his wife, his two children, and both of his parents had been killed. He had one cigarette. He shared it with me. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#57. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car. - Author: Bill Maher

#58. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. - Author: Barack Obama

#59. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#60. Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication. - Author: Patrick Symmes

#61. There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders. - Author: Jeffrey Ashby

#62. I'm not just a cuckolded wife. - Author: Elizabeth Edwards

#63. 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. - Author: Rachel Cohn

#64. 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. - Author: Rick Bragg

#65. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged. - Author: Meghan Daum

#66. 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.: - Author: Susan Gregg Gilmore

#67. My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. - Author: Jacques Pepin

#68. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony. - Author: Ursula Parrott

#69. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling. - Author: Sanjeev Bhaskar

#70. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold. - Author: John Gould

#71. I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. - Author: Rodney Dangerfield

#72. I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter. - Author: Chris Bohjalian

#73. On the three pigs he and his wife own: We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn't want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda. - Author: John Mortimer

#74. A strong man does not need a silent wife. - Author: Kate Elliott

#75. A steady love, a faithful love, a wife's love is the best. - Author: Philippa Gregory

#76. [After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No. - Author: Jennifer Lopez

#77. My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini. - Author: Oliver E. Williamson

#78. It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me. - Author: LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#79. I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Author: Michelangelo

#80. With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. - Author: Jane Austen

#81. If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand. - Author: Maureen Howard

#82. Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took me a while to locate her pupils. She was clearly the brains of the operation, such as she was. - Author: Molly Harper

#83. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#84. My husband and my children inspire me on a daily basis to be the best wife, mom, and woman I can be. - Author: Candace Cameron

#85. The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife. - Author: Michael Chiklis

#86. Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. - Author: Mario Puzo

#87. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect. - Author: Liam O'Flaherty

#88. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife. - Author: Jodi Thomas

#89. 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. - Author: James Boswell

#90. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy). - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#91. I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family. - Author: Paul Heyse

#92. 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. - Author: Meri Brown

#93. 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. - Author: Jeff Foxworthy

#94. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right. - Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#95. My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Author: Robert Carlyle

#96. That never goes over big with your wife. I will be a very good husband for a change. - Author: Donald Trump

#97. When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#98. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence. - Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

#99. Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now ... ? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually. - Author: Nick Frost

#100. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that. - Author: Gillian Flynn