Wife Quotes - Page 6

• My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

  Samuel Pepys

  Lonely, Poor, My Wife

  'Diary' 19 December 1662

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• She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Handsome, Winsome

  Robert Burns (1856). “The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed”, p.247

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Virtue, Fortune

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

  Walter Winchell

  Marriage, Sex, Thinking

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• Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

  Jim Backus

  Marriage, Humorous, Drinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  Jack Benny

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

  Prince Philip

  Thinking, Edinburgh, Moral

  Speech in London, 6 Dec. 1988, comparing participation in blood sports to selling slaughtered meat, in The Times 7 Dec. 1988

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• Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Men, Thinking

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 4

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• You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Husband, Golf

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• My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

  Erica Jong

  Advice, Wish, Answers

  1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

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• Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

  Charles Chilton Moore

  Christian, Children, Years

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• 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

  Girl, Love You, Handsome

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• My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

  Lee Trevino

  Funny, Marriage, Sports

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• Take my wife... Please!

  Henny Youngman

  My Wife, Please

  Henny Youngman (2014). “Take My Wife, Please!: Henny Youngman's Giant Book of Jokes”, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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• Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Obeying, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Differences

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• My wife is possessive and I like that

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  My Wife, Possessive

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• Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Remodeling, Needed

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• Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Size, Receipts, Petite

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• There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

  Margaret of Valois

  Running, Husband, Winning

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• There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Common Sense, Dread

  "Don Quixote in England: A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding, Esq".

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• 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

  Friends, Children, Judging

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• A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.

  Neko Case

  Community, Remember, Our Future

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• Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

  William Penn

  Friendship, Friends, Separation

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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