wives Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

41 wives Quotes
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“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough”
Groucho Marx Quotes
“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”
Rodney Dangerfield Quotes
“A good wife makes a good husband”
Harold Macmillan Quotes
“All married women are not wives”
Japanese Proverb Quotes
“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
“There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”
Billy Sunday Quotes
“It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.”
William Harrison Ainsworth Quotes
Source: Miser's Daughter (bk. III, ch. XV)
“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Of Marriage and Single Life
“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 Quotes
Source: Don't Ceare (st. 5)
“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 Quotes
Source: Not Far to Go
“My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met! And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labor'd words could speak.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: To My Wife
“Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.”
George W. Bethune Quotes
Source: To My Wife
“If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XIII, v. 6)
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Peter (ch. III, v. 7)
“A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 13)
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 27)
“So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well.”
Robert Williams Buchanan Quotes
Source: Fra Giacomo
“In thy face have I seen the eternal.”
Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen Quotes
Source: To his wife, when dying at Bonn (1860), found in "Life of Baron Bunsen", vol. II, p. 389
“Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Henpecked Husband
“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 Quotes
Source: My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
“Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.”
William Congreve Quotes
Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)