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Wife Quotes - Page 101

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.309, Northwestern University Press

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Never paint your wife or your mother.

"George W. Bush’s Pearls Of Wisdom On Painting". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2014.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

"An Irregular Ode", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 868-71, 1922.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

"Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

The wife is the key of the house.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.303