Top 100 Wife Is Quotes
#1. I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.
Charles Dickens
#2. As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#3. I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
Peter Lerangis
#4. I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Raul Julia
#5. Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.
Lu Xun
#6. I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.
Josh Gad
#7. It's like the guy who announces his wife is his best friend. He doesn't mean it; he just does it to make the rest of us look like assholes.
Adam Carolla
#8. I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
Daniel Dae Kim
#10. A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore De Balzac
#12. I have always dressed somewhat well - not because I work at GQ - but because my wife is amazing at finding clothes that disguise my waistline.
James Mullinger
#13. My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.
Graham Phillips
#14. A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Jim Samuels
#16. 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
#17. Being Manny Pacquiao's wife is not easy. It's fun for me and my guys but it's very difficult for her.
Manny Pacquiao
#18. I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
Sam Levenson
#19. My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
Taylor Hanson
#20. I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley
#21. 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
#22. That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.
Anne Tyler
#23. A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
Moby
#24. Ah'm uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor's wife is somethin' different again.
Zora Neale Hurston
#25. As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.
Michael Schmicker
#26. Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".
Plutarch
#27. My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
Bill Hader
#28. One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
John Gay
#29. He said, "Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer."
"Baptism is a prayer."
"No," he said. "Baptism is a what I'd call a fact.
Marilynne Robinson
#30. Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
Barack Obama
#31. The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.
Archie Panjabi
#33. I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.
Scott Adams
#34. All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
Alexander Pope
#35. I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
Mads Mikkelsen
#36. A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.
Habeeb Akande
#37. Hamlet: Farewell, dear mother
Claudius: Thy loving father, Hamlet
Hamlet: My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh; so my mother.
William Shakespeare
#38. I asked my wife, 'Is there somebody else?' She said, 'There MUST be.'
Rodney Dangerfield
#39. I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
Matthew Reilly
#40. My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.
Steve Carell
#42. Lord St. Vincent sees to it that his wife is dressed like a queen. I'll tell thee summat: if she wanted the moon for her looking glass, he'd find a way to pull it down for her.
Lisa Kleypas
#43. Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress; to say otherwise is sophistical
is false.
Charlotte Bronte
#45. A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete
John Steinbeck
#46. My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
Ted Shackelford
#47. A husband comes home from satsang and greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. His wife is surprised and asks, 'Did the Swami ji preach about being romantic today?' Her husband replies, 'No, he said we must carry our burdens and sorrows with a smile.
Khushwant Singh
#48. Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
Jimmy Durante
#49. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
#50. For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.
John Barrasso
#51. It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
#52. My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.
Rodney Dangerfield
#53. The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#54. My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.
Anthony Hopkins
#55. [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.
Harry Connick Jr.
#56. My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.
Leon Max
#57. I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.
Joseph Monninger
#58. Chocolate Kinder from Germany. My wife is from Germany and once I tasted them I was scared I would have to fight at heavyweight.
Erislandy Lara
#59. My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and people here are so into the food. It's one of the most exciting food cities in the country.
Daniel Humm
#60. My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Stockwell Day
#62. 'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
William Shakespeare
#63. I try to act cool. I've never had a hand on my thigh, under the table. Cathy - my brother's wife - is telling a very funny story about the family's trips to Bridlington, and her elderly Grandmother is doling out peas, which makes the experience even stranger.
Charlotte Stein
#64. Hell, your kid is fucking my wife, and your wife is fucking me. [ ... ]
Not that she's any good, Zane said, looking at Georgia, and when she made a little cry of protest, he added, Hell Georgia, even Jell-O moves when you eat it.
Jennifer Crusie
#65. My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
Alan King
#66. The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
William Shakespeare
#67. My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.
Woody Allen
#68. The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her
Mother Teresa
#71. In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
#72. 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
#73. A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
Euripides
#75. There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.
Heber C. Kimball
#76. The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.
Lawrence Fagg
#77. They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!
Jay Leno
#78. Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.
Peggy Noonan
#79. A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
John Grisham
#80. The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection.
John Dod
#81. You ought to marry her, then. A man could do worse. How many men can say their wife is their best friend? Besides me, of course. I cannot too highly praise the magic of sharing every day of your life with the one person most calculated to give you pleasure.
Cheryl Bolen
#82. Good Lord, His Grace the Ass hiding in the bushes," Apollo muttered. "Whatever are you doing here?" "Ah, Kilbourne, you've regained your voice," Wakefield drawled. "Pity, but I presume my wife is thrilled. And you are?" He looked pointedly at Montgomery.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#83. Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.
Margaret Brownley
#84. ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
Sebastiao Salgado
#85. My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.
Sean Astin
#86. Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
Hugh Jackman
#87. My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.
Rodney Dangerfield
#88. My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.
Jack LaLanne
#89. What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?
Paul Stookey
#90. The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
Jon Bon Jovi
#91. A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this to me!' but she is still super beautiful. There's none of the realism that we just went through.
Lennon Parham
#92. An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let's
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention!
Aditi Mathur Kumar
#93. The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level.
Olivia Newton-John
#94. I'm leaning on an old guy trick here, claiming my wife is being a typical irrational woman right as she begins saying things that I don't want to hear.
Matthew Norman
#96. My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
Michael J. Fox
#97. My wife is younger. At one point, I was twice her age. Of course, I was six at the time.
Jarod Kintz
#98. Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
John Buchan
#99. A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore
#100. But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.
Yiyun Li
