Wife Quotes
Jeremy Clarkson
I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.
2473 Stephanie Lennox
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
2118 Oliver Bowden
Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.
2063 Virginia Woolf
She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.
4075 Lailah Gifty Akita
Love notes to my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita; I will always love you. I am grateful for a blessed life shared with you.
3415 Charlotte Brontë
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest - blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.
1660 H.L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
1926 Rodney Dangerfield
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.
2006 Oche Otorkpa
Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires
1952 William Shakespeare
O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
2102 Nicole Krauss
These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all.
2927 Bauvard
Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk.
2025 Bauvard
Love your wife, your servant and your enemy equally, and file her credit card bills under the ‘enemy’ folder.
1292 Bauvard
Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too high in the world to generalize that skill, which drives him to drink.
2643 E.W. Howe
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
3756 Carew Papritz
You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.
3373 Ikechukwu Izuakor
To be faithful to your wife is wisdom but to acquire concubines is like signing your euthanasia
4679 J.G. Ballard
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.
3630 Michelle M. Pillow
There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.
3907 Michael Bassey Johnson
A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that they become very interested in only interesting things about you.
1606 Stormie Omartian
Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
3507 Robert Galbraith
I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.
3345 Jim George
There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis.
4142 Elizabeth George
Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.
2070 Bamigboye Olurotimi
Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don't even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.
4084 Shon Hyneman
I love my wife but I spend a lot of time with grace and mercy
4136 Virginia Woolf
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
3039 Roman Payne
In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!
4121 Bamigboye Olurotimi
You only get the best from a woman you love, respect and adore all the days of her life
1335 Enock Maregesi
Mwaka mmoja na nusu unatosha kumjua mwanamke kabla ya ndoa. Miezi sita itakufanya ujue kama mwanamke anaweza kuwa mchumba. Mwaka mmoja na nusu utakufanya ujue kama mwanamke anaweza kuwa mke.
2362 James Ragan
And sometimes, and only in spring,
a dove from the river's soft vale of lilies
will fly as close to you as trust,
and a calm in the great reds of autumn
will, as often as you need, lie down
beside you, raising a brow you've known
above the eyes of the only woman
you will ever have a need to dream or touch.
1982 Eowyn Ivey
Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?
4608 Michael Bassey Johnson
When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
2147 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
3279 Margaret Rome
She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.
4136 Michael Bassey Johnson
True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.
4390 Jennifer Smith
Being an unveiled wife is about confronting and crushing your fears; believing in truth more than in doubt, worry, or lies, and finding your security in God alone
4502 Jim George
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
4588 Jim George
No matter how old you are or how long-or short!-you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!
3639 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.
4524 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
4847 Augustus
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
1472 Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
3895 Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.
2258 Lisa Kleypas
Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”
“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.
He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.
2110 Aditi Mathur Kumar
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!
1378 Jim George
Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
2784 Jim George
Communication is not a one-way street.
2907 Jim George
After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
1772 Elizabeth George
Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.
3526 Olaotan Fawehinmi
A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.
2040 Leonard Cohen
How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.
4900 Nancy E. Turner
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
4888 Philippa Gregory
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
3981 Terry Pratchett
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
4449 Arthur Golden
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
2352 Deanna Raybourn
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things - useful things.
3131 Edith Wharton
...they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters...
...Eş gibi tatlı bir kelime karşılığında özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her şeyin altın olmadığını görmeye hazırlıklı olmalıdırlar...
3254 Heather Chapple
The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls included) that is provided by every family member living in the house until they die.
1783 Eric Flint
Jeff watched her come, the whole time. He never noticed her mincing, hesitant steps on treacherous heels. He was simply swept up in the ancient ceremony. And discovering, as untold millions of young men had discovered before him, that there is nothing in the world as beautiful as his bride approaching.
2814 Jill Bialosky
I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife.
1317 Yatin Patel
Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.
2278 Ashleigh Slater
Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren’t what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it’s the here and now. It’s those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run
4197 Jim George
A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.
4020 Elizabeth George
Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!
1214 Elizabeth George
Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you - as husband and wife - commit to keep growing spiritually.
1688 Jim George
God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.
1276 Zig Ziglar
How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?
3311 Michael Bassey Johnson
A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.
4840 Jim George
Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.
2424 Ashlyn Macnamara
In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.
1663 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
3847 Jim George
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
4009 Leonard Tourney
Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.
4907 Jim George
Value your wife by valuing what she says.
2372 Thomas Hardy
When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.
2832 Jim George
God will bless you and your marriage when you follow His blueprint.
1895 Jim George
You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.
1159 Jim George
The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.
4660 Elizabeth George
Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.
1823 Elizabeth George
You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.
3473 Carl Sagan
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]
1802 Michael Ben Zehabe
Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this more dramatically than how we treat our loved ones.
pg 63
1907 Anne Tyler
Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
4437 Margaret Way
Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!
1097 Lanier Ivester
...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.
3481 Unknown Author
A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.
2921 Kathryn Michaels
The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.
2127 A.C. Gaughen
Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.
3085 Jamie McGuire
What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'
I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?
2110 Frances O'Roark Dowell
My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of things' kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on in times of distress.
3854