Mark Twain Quotes About Wife

• Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.491, Courier Corporation

• If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

• Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

• I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Wife

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.417, Penguin

• The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Wife, Religion

  Mark Twain (1984). “The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it”, p.290, Library of America

• When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Home, Humor

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