Wife Quotes - Page 12

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

A man who sacrifices for his wife and serves her becomes much more attractive to her.

I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion. Any man who will make his wife's comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'

Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.