Wife Quotes About Love & Connection – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

Thomas Moore

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Joseph Epstein

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Samuel Richardson

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

William J. Clinton

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

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

Walter Bagehot

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

Mother Jones

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Charles Baudelaire

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas de Quincey

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

Zig Ziglar

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Will Cuppy

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Philip Stanhope

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Jilly Cooper

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

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

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

James Herriot

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Israel Zangwill

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.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

David Brainerd

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Daniel Boone

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

Lucy Stone

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

George Stigler

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 Garcia Marquez

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

George Santayana

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

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

George Jean Nathan

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Barry Goldwater

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

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Chanakya

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

Tony Blair

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Sacha Guitry

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

Joe Slovo

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

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

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

Tony Blair

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

Robert Mondavi

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Elizabeth Gaskell

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

William Goldman

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

Kenneth Noland

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn