A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. — Chanakya
A husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies. — African Proverbs
Wives and husbands are a dime a dozen but a true partner is worth their weight in gold. — Alex Hormozi
Short Great Wife Quotes
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. — Sacha Guitry
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. — Hubert Humphrey
Who can find a wife of noble character? She is far more precious than jewels. — Bible Proverbs
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. — Ouida
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. — Groucho Marx
Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing. — Coretta Scott King
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. — Euripides
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. — Cyril Connolly
A good marriage is a contest of generosity. — Diane Sawyer
Great Wife Image Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength.
Love My Wife Quotes
My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children. — Gad Saad
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi
I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. — Adam Yauch
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison. — Benjamin Bratt
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week. — Pierre Dukan
There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me. — Raymond Carver
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding. — Stand Watie
My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived. — Steven Adler
Perfect Wife Quotes
Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg. — Myrna Loy
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. — Henny Youngman
First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers. — Rosalynn Carter
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. — Nicolas Chamfort
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths — Mark Twain
In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands. — Matthew Perry
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
I would love to have the power to be the just eternally perfect husband so my wife would always be happy; that would take me to heaven if I could figure that one out. — Robert Knepper
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. — D. H. Lawrence
A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes. — Unknown
I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem. — Debora Spar
Great Husband Quotes
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. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do. — Marlee Matlin
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. — Maureen Forrester
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country. — Betty Ford
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. — Shmuley Boteach
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. — Matthew Modine
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. — W. C. Fields
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. — Paul the Apostle
Loving Wife Quotes
When a man finds a good woman and treats her the way she deserves to be treated it will change his Life. God favors a man that finds his wife and Loves her the way God Loves her — Tony Gaskins
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
To a great mind, nothing is little.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. — Jeremy Taylor
With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life. — Dean Martin
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
Some love the priest and some love the priest’s wife — Greek Proverbs
Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men. — Dave Willis
Beautiful Wife Quotes
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. — William Penn
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice. — Luis Figo
My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration. — Ralph Lauren
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me. — Judith Jamison
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. — H. L. Mencken
The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you. — Dom DeLuise
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
If you start praising your wife, if you start telling her how beautiful she is, and how glad you are to have her in your life, when you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you'll draw out the negative. It's up to you. — Joel Osteen
I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice. — Silvio Berlusconi
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. — Les Paul
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did. — Martin Andersen Nexø
Wonderful Husband Quotes
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. — Oscar Wilde
The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is. — Barbara Cartland
Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder. — Groucho Marx
Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. — Cindy Crawford
Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise. — Dinah Shore
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. — Pierre Salinger
Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband. — Meryl Streep
You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance. — Yolanda Adams
I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes. — Nora Roberts
My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack. — Ray Bergman
Happy Wife Quotes
Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins
If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle. — Junaid Jamshed
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. — Barry Sanders
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life. — Robert Burns
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. — Socrates
I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. — Peter MacKay
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. — Ernest Hemingway
My Wife Quotes
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky. — Gene Wilder
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. — Marie Antoinette
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. — Rodney Dangerfield
I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it. — Anthony Jeselnik
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. — Willie Nelson
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. — Gene Wilder
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
[Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.] — Plautus
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. — Peter Agre
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did — Henny Youngman
I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees. — Ryan Reynolds
I Love My Wife Quotes
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. — Sam Peckinpah
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. — Douglas Conant
My wife and I were actually driving in the south of France when we got the word that Kelly Clarkson had come out that 'The Plant Paradox' had changed her life. I'm a big fan of hers. I like her music and I would love to work with her. — Steven Gundry
I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.' — Gregory Peck
Funding has been the hardest part, and my wife has been extremely supportive both when I decided to leave my job, and even when I re-mortgaged our home and put equity into the project. I am lucky to have such a loving and supportive partner. — Nirmal Purja
My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.' — Robin Ince
I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. — Aaron Spelling
My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out. — Abraham Lincoln
When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving? — Wanda Sykes
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. — Gaspard Mermillod
Love Your Wife Quotes
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. — Mother Teresa
If you are wise, look after your house; love your wife without alloy. — Egyptian Proverbs
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. — Thomas B. Macaulay
At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. — Larry Christiansen
As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness. — Winston Smith
Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known. — Julia Quinn
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. — Groucho Marx
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. — Sean Penn
Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do. — Lenny Bruce
Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion — Henry B. Eyring
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
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
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. — Winston Churchill
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. — Jackie Robinson
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. — Jake Owen
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. — Phil Neville
She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off — Red Skelton
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. — Orson Pratt
Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored. — O. J. Simpson
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." — Joel Osteen
A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife. — Dan Jenkins
'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'. — Gordon Lightfoot
All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house. — Willie Pep
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. — Demi Moore
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. — Christopher Meloni
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife. — Angela Ahrendts
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.' — Adam Sandler
Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife. — Bruce Lansky
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. — Glenn Turner
Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it. — Winston Churchill
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 — Ammianus Marcellinus
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. — Angela Ahrendts
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. — Asif Ali Zardari
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. — Victoria Woodhull
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day. — Matt Groening
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground. — Denis Johnson
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music. — Prince Royce
I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America. — Pope Francis
I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I've only been in one car accident - one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn't even have time to put on a seat belt, because they'd just picked me up. — Dominic Cooper
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles. — Martin Luther
If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee. — Nancy Astor
The weather's cold. My club's bad. My knee hurts. I can't putt no more. I'm off my diet. My wife is nagging me. Other than that, everything's great. — Don Zimmer
The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th. — Scott Adams
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