Quotes on Wife

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Author: Bella Abzug

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 forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

Author: Don Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Author: Douglas Adams

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Author: Joey Adams

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

Author: Will Adams

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Author: Peter Agre

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

Author: Danny Aiello

Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

Author: Jessica Alba

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Author: Woody Allen

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Author: Woody Allen

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Author: B. Ambedkar

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

Author: Anthony Anderson

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

Author: Francesca Annis

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Author: Piers Anthony

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 reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Author: Saint Augustine

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Author: Jane Austen

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Author: Francis Bacon

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Author: David Bailey

I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well.

Author: Christine Baranski

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. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Author: J. Barrie

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

Author: James Barrie

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Author: John Barrymore

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

Author: Charles Baudelaire

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Author: Jimmy Black

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

Author: William Blackstone

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

Author: Tony Blair

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Author: Tony Blair

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Author: Erma Bombeck

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

Author: James Boren

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Author: Victor Borge

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Author: Tom Bosley

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Author: David Brainerd

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Author: Charles Bronson

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

Author: James Brown

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

Author: Jonathan Brown

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

Author: Charles Browne

If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.

Author: Gisele Bundchen

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Author: Julius Caesar

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Author: Michael Caine

I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.

Author: Alex Campbell

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

Author: Alex Campbell

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Author: Steve Carell

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Author: Frank Carson

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Author: Jimmy Carter

Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

Author: Michael Chabon

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Author: Chanakya

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Author: Anton Chekhov

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Author: Anton Chekhov

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Author: Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Author: Winston Churchill

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

Author: William Clinton

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

Author: Glenn Close

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

Author: Brian Clough

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Author: Joan Collins

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

Author: Stephen Collins

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Author: Sean Connery

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Author: Sean Connery

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Author: Joseph Cook

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Author: Jilly Cooper

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

Author: Pete Coors

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

Author: Eric Cornell

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Author: Bill Cosby

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Author: David Cronenberg

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Author: Tony Curtis

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

Author: Dick Dale

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

Author: Evan Dando

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

Author: Chris Daughtry

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

Author: Michael Davis

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

Author: Thomas Dewar

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Author: Thomas Dewar

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

Author: Vin Diesel

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

Author: Mike Ditka

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Author: Jimmy Durante

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Author: Robert Duvall

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

Author: George Eliot

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Author: Joseph Ellis

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.

Author: Todd English

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Author: Epictetus

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

Author: Linda Evans

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.

Author: Jerry Falwell

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Author: Juan Fangio

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

Author: Brett Favre

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

Author: Corey Feldman

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

Author: Bryan Ferry

A good husband makes a good wife.

Author: John Florio

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Author: Ben Folds

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

Author: Rick Fox

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

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

Author: Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

Author: Ace Frehley

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Author: Thomas Fuller

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Author: Thomas Fuller

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Author: Thomas Fuller

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

Author: Thomas Fuller

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Author: Thomas Fuller

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Author: Joe Garagiola

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Author: James Garner

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Author: John Gay

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

Author: Ed Gillespie

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

Author: Tom Glazer

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

Author: William Goldman

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

Author: Jerry Goldsmith

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Author: Al Goldstein

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Author: Barry Goldwater

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Author: Germaine Greer

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Author: Texas Guinan

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Author: Sacha Guitry

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Author: Sacha Guitry

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?

Author: Luis Guzman

My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.

Author: Merle Haggard

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

Author: Jessica Hahn

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

Author: Jerry Hall

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

Author: Lasse Hallstrom

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

Author: Cedric Hardwicke

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

Author: Ian Hart

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

Author: David Hasselhoff

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Author: Hesiod

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

Author: Wild Hickok

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Author: Nazim Hikmet

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Author: Arthur Hiller

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Author: Homer

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

Author: Laurence Housman

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Author: Edgar Howe

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Author: Kin Hubbard

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

Author: Ernie Hudson

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

Author: Rex Hunt

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Author: Dolores Ibarruri

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

Author: Guillermo Infante

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Author: Charles Ives

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

Author: Hugh Jackman

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

Author: Hugh Jackman

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Author: Andrew Jackson