Wife Quotes
A wife, domestic, good, and pure,
Like snail, should keep within her door;
But not, like snail, with silver track,
Place all her wealth upon her back.
Walsham How
I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.
Sebastian Arcelus
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
Courtney Milan
I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.
Tionne Watkins
TLC
I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.
Charles Bock
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.
Milton Berle
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway
You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.
Ty Burrell
I used to give her my wife to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was so mad - are you crazy? You're not going to send that, or, you're not going to write that about me. So I would go, OK. You have five hours. Go ahead, write the column yourself.
Sayed Kashua
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.
George Washington
My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not.
Tom Hanks
All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.
Jack Roy
When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
Ray Bradbury
Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.
Emily Giffin
I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.
Les Dawson
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
Saadi
