Quotes about wife

Here is some quotes about Wife.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac

Health for life to you,
A wife of your choice to you,
A child every year to you,
And the light of heaven after this world for you.
Irish Blessing

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.
Socrates

Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the furniture.
William Shakespeare's will

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
Charles Reade

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.
Woody Allen

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Winston Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

In my house I'm the boss. My wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Winston Churchill

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
Tony Blair

I find her very hot.
Tony Blair
Responding to Glasgow radio presenter who said "Scots guys find your wife quite hot".



A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore De Balzac

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech - every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Elizabeth Taylor

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kin Hubbard

My wife's a hobby-horse.
William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa

I already have a wife who is too much for me; she is my art, and my works are my children.
Michelangelo

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus

Norman [Eric Idle]: Is your wife a..."goer"... eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge. Nudge nudge! Know what I mean? Say no more...Know what I mean?
Monty Python's Flying Circus


As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
Julian Barnes

All married women are not wives.
Japanese Proverb

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith

He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
William Penn

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

The sweetest women can be turned into a shrew by a man if he excites her but does not fulfill her. To tame her and to bring her back to sweetness he must make love to her and bring forth her pleasures, and she will turn immediately as night changes to day . . . She will then become a good wife, a good companion, a good mother, and a good human being.
Haroun Al Makhzoumi

Seek a wife in your own sphere.
Latin Proverb

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

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb

When a husband brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
Molly McGee

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.
W. C. Fields

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things.
Bill Cosby

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.
Author Unknown

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Les Dawson

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
George Jean Nathan

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.
Benjamin Franklin

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
Amy Grant

This is the way to kill a wife with kindness.
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew

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

Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
Homer Simpson
To aliens who abducted Simpson family.

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife,
Let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.
Kahlil Gibran

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold Macmillan

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Bible
Exodus

Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.
Bible
Ecclesiasticus

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

A faithful and loving wife is the jewel of a marriage.
Lamar Cole


I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Rodney Dangerfield

A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.
Author Unknown

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
Charles Reade

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.
Talmud

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife.
Author Unknown

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.
Ian Holloway

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold Macmillan

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kin Hubbard

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.
French Proverb

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon Johnson

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him...
Oscar Wilde

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
Don Epperson

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Zig Ziglar

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan

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

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby