My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pioneering Great Wife quotations
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.
I’m in for work at 6.30am and one of the last to leave. I don’t want to go home. We have beds at the training ground and I go home sometimes and say to my wife: 'Do you know something, I didn’t want to leave work today!' It’s not a slight on my wife. It’s just a great position to be in when you love your job so much.
She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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.
Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.
Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond to your praise and encouragement. Your words don't have to be poetic, fancy, or profound. Tell her simply but sincerely, "You're a great mother to our children. And you are a great wife to me. I'm so glad I can always count on you."
A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage.
It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.
All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life.
And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.
I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function.
And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.
Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.
Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion;
terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife.
I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain too and both of us have many friends there.
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths