Wife Quotes
4100 quotes by 2665 authors
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content…
— Frank Abagnale
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that…
— Richard Armour
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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
— Bella Abzug
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some…
— Saint Augustine
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
— Jane Austen
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
— Jane Austen
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
— Francis Bacon
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
— Christian Bale
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
— Honore de Balzac
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
— Honore de Balzac
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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even…
— Don Adams
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I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of…
— Don Adams
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are…
— Joyce Banda
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it…
— Roseanne Barr
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Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.…
— James M. Barrie
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
— Joey Adams
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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
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My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
— John Barrymore
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