Wife Quotes - Page 4

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

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Relationship, Friends, Marriage

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  Walter Bagehot

  Mother, Women, Inspiration

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wedding, Flower, Literature

  "Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

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• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Yoke, Influence

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

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

  Tony Blair

  Thank You, Reality, Things In Life

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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

  Joan Collins

  Husband, Men, Complaining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tony Curtis

  Funny Love, Enough, Caught

  "Tony Curtis dies aged 85" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• A good husband makes a good wife.

  John Florio

  Inspirational, Marriage, Husband

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, House

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Money, Husband

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• A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

  Thomas Moore

  Vanity, Retiring, Fastidious

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• A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

  George Jean Nathan

  Women, Firsts, Compromise

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

  Barack Obama

  Politics, Littles, Facts

  "'Run Obama! Run!' Could this be the next US president?" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

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• Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

  Henny Youngman

  Anniversary, Husband, Inspiration

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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• Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

  Jackie Gleason

  Marriage, Husband, Thinking

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  Otto Rank

  Family, Coveting, Morality

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• The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Husband, Distance

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• My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Running, Truth

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

  William Blackstone

  Husband, Husband And Wife, Husband Wife

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