Quotes of Wife - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”

- John Dryden

“ He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat. ”

- Stevie Smith

“ Never take a wife till thou hast a house to put her in. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. ”

- Al Bundy

“ The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife. ”

- John Wilmot

“ Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul. ”

- William Barnes

“ And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go. ”

- William Barnes

“ Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there mey be a wife someplace else. ”

- Bella Abzug

“ 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. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ”

- Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip

“ It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ My toughest fight was with my first wife. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ”

- William Penn

“ She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. ”

- Henny Youngman

“ London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own. ”

- George Crabbe

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. ”

- Unknown

“ A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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