Wife Quotes - page 2

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?. (Lord Byron)
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel García Márquez
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Euripides
My wife and I have five children the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.
Bill Cosby
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. (Cyril Connolly)
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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Emo Philips
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
Take my wife... Please!
Henny Youngman
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
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
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus