Quotes about Wives

“Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.”

“To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.”

“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.”

“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

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

“Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.”

“A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.”

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

“She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.”

“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”

“I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.”

“Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.”

“The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.”

“Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.”

“A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.”

“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.”

“If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!”

“When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”

“Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.”

“I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.”

“If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”

“The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.”

“That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.”

“Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.”

“Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.”

“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”

“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.”

“I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.”

“It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”

“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”