Wife Quotes - page 4

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. (Oscar Wilde)
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas De Quincey
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater
Commuter one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
E. B. White
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves em still two fools.
William Congreve
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether Her knees and elbows are only glued together.
William Blake
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
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste Was she not fair Was she not fruitful' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.' (Plutarch)
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.
Rodney Dangerfield
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
Helen Rowland
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
Anne Brontë
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
Annie Besant
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara De Angelis
Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the furniture.
William Shakespeare
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Look, we're all the same a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up. (Arthur Miller)
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Paul
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Paul