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Wife Quotes - Page 69

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

"An Honest President". Book by H. Paul Jeffers, 2000.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

George Farquhar, Arthur Murphy, George sen Colman, David Garrick (1817). “Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.64

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.488, Xist Publishing

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher

A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.

Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.81, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2085, Delphi Classics