For them, wives were never the better half. They were…

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.”

— Chris Byrd

“Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.”

— Susan Lendroth

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives…

— Pope Leo XIII

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their…

— Samuel Johnson

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives…

— Pope Leo XIII

“As high as the fire in me burns, Evie, I will stoke it in you." "Sebastian..."She strained a little, and he pinned her more…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Mock you!" repeated he earnestly, "no I revere you! I esteem and I admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to…

— Fanny Burney

For the better half of my early 20s, I was Bubble Girl. When I found out I had leukemia at 22 my world suddenly…

— Suleika Jaouad

We are biologically designed to both need and want a better half for protection, for procreation, and for community. Wanting such is not oppressive,…

— Brett Cooper

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

— Alfred Hitchcock

“I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. "Hello, Carter." I'd known the angel was lurking in the kitchen, just as Peter had felt me…

— Richelle Mead

My better half and i!

— Anonymous

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

— Anonymous

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle