Quotes about wife

Natasha Anders - The Unwanted Wife

Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in the world to make you love me again I had only a few short months.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Every man sees his wife like an angel until he gets a better one.

Wrushank Sorte -

I was about to die and then she gave me a birth again

Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed and he was happy without her.

Dada Bhagwan -

Problem does not lie in being a husband the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).

Marshall Curry -

My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.

Annie Besant -

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

Howie Mandel -

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

John Lithgow -

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Joyce Meyer -

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Peter Agre -

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

Honore de Balzac -

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

Nicholas Sparks -

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Hasan Minhaj -

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

Clyde Edgerton -

Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me 'Love You Forever.' I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.

Oliver Goldsmith -

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

David Miliband -

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

Vijender Singh -

On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.

Justin Tuck -

I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

Louis Oosthuizen -

I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.

Julianna Margulies -

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

Kin Hubbard -

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Rodney Dangerfield -

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Samuel Richardson -

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Mary Gaitskill -

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.

Naftali Bennett -

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

Nora Ephron -

One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

Susan B. Anthony -

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Alexander Chase -

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Jack Black -

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

Darius Rucker -

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

Marie Antoinette -

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Masaharu Morimoto -

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes.

Rupert Murdoch -

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

Bob Dylan -

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Kim Alexis -

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

Charles Bukowski -

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Max Greenfield -

I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

Kyle Chandler -

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.

Will Cuppy -

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Howard Nemerov -

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Eavan Boland -

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

Kenneth Koch -

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

Benjamin Bratt -

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.

Jean Reno -

If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

Julianne Moore -

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.

Sherman Alexie -

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Nick Cannon -

I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife.

Alice Cooper -

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

B. R. Ambedkar -

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

Debbie Reynolds -

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

Steve Carell -

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

Noel Gallagher -

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

Harry Connick - Jr.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

Robert Webb -

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

Dave Gahan -

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

Gavin Rossdale -

A happy wife is a happy life.

Jynnette L. Miller -

True love is something, so very true and very rare to find. So, if you ever find such a thing. Treat it as if it were some treasure. Because, once you find such a thing and set free; it will not ever return. So, treat it as if its your most precious gift....

Trix Wilkins - The Courtship of Jo March: a variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

The more important factors are a man’s perseverance, his ability to innovate and think of new ideas, to be willing to adapt to changing conditions, to push almost tirelessly at a task or several at a time, during the difficult seasons as well as the prosperous. Certainly a man may be all these on his own, and succeed, wife or no – but to have a wife who possessed these qualities, who could bring out in her husband such steadiness and strength of character by her example and unyielding affection…

Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

A good wife keeps you happy in bed, but a better wife keeps you happier even out of the bed.

Ali R.A -

The most #happy is he to whom #ALLAH has given a good #wife.

Lisa Jewell - Before I Met You

you are the only woman I have ever met who I would want to be in a little house with, do you see? Other women make me want to get on boats and run away. You, you make me want to stay somewhere, so that I can see your face everyday. So that I can hold you everyday and watch you grow older. You make me want to be an adult man. You make me want to settle down.

Elizabeth George - A Wife After God's Own Heart

Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.

Elizabeth George - A Wife After God's Own Heart

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

Alice Munro - Marriage: Stories

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the same, except that the children would grow up, and there might be one or two more of them and they too would grow up, and she and Brendan would grow older and then old.It was not until now, not until this moment, that she had seen so clearly that she was counting on something happening, something which would change her life. S

Aleksandr Voinov - Special Forces

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

Sunday Adelaja -

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

What is the meaning of having more than one wife when threesome is not allowed?

Roman Payne -

In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

A.C. Gaughen - Scarlet

Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

Margaret Rome - Palace of the Hawk

She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

We all men want a bad girl friend, but a good wife.

Ezra Taft Benson -

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. Our degree of pride determines how we treat our God and our brothers and sisters. Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Wife of Bath

Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,And take youre aventure of the repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.

John Scalzi - Lock In

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.

Jim George - A Husband After God's Own Heart

Communication is not a one-way street.

uzair raza -

Never laugh at your wife’s choices… you’re one of them

Himmilicious -

Nothing is respectfully amazing than a man who finds no shame to tell the world how grateful he is for all the love and sacrifices his woman made..

Habeeb Akande -

A righteous wife is a respectful wife.

Daisy Goodwin - The American Heiress

...when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

Jim George -

A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.

Jim George - A Man After God's Own Heart

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

Lanier Ivester -

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

Jim George - A Husband After God's Own Heart

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

Oscar Wilde - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.

Gena Showalter - Last Kiss Goodnight

A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other.

Jim George - A Man After God's Own Heart

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

Jim George - A Husband After God's Own Heart

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

Sunday Adelaja -

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed

Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

Deyth Banger - It's not a happy

What I most hate is the books and films and all other stuff which all the time end in happy end, do you hate it...It's better to be in happy and... - After all I wanted to show the taste of the real world, a injury in father's childhood, then injury when his wife dies...

Michael Ben Zehabe - Song of Songs The Book for Daughters

A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.pg 48

Larry R. Lawrence -

It’s so important for husbands and wives to be united when making parenting decisions. If either parent doesn’t feel good about something, then permission should not be granted. If either feels uncomfortable about a movie, a television show, a video game, a party, a dress, a swimsuit, or an Internet activity, have the courage to support each other and say no.

Larry R. Lawrence -

Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn’t feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior.

Ashleigh Slater - Team Us: Marriage Together

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

Larry Hagman -

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

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