WIFE

Related Subjects: Family, Husband, Marriage, Mistress, Widow

1. Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.—J. M. BARRIE, What Every Woman Knows
   

2. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.—Bible, Proverbs 18:22
   

3. Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.—Bible, I Peter 3:7
   

4. She is a winsome wee thing,
   She is a handsome wee thing,
   She is a lo'esome wee thing,
   This sweet wee wife o' mine.—BURNS, My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing
   

5. Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

6. This flour of wyfly pacience.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

7. Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.—EURIPIDES, Antigone
   

8. She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy & Profane State
   

9. He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy & Profane State
   

10. I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.—GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
    

11. She would have made a splendid wife, for crying only made her eyes more bright.—O. HENRY
    

12. Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother.
    Nora: That I no longer believe. I think that before all else I am a human being.—IBSEN, A Doll's House
    

13. I have known what it was to have a wife, and .. . I have known what it was to lose a wife.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

14. He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

15. How much the wife is dearer than the bride.—LORD LYTTLETON, An Irregular Ode
    

16. My wife, poor wretch.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
    

17. Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only."—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

18. She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
    Or if she rules him, never shows she rules.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

19. A good wife makes a good husband.—Proverb
    

20. Many blame the wife for their own thriftless life.—Proverb
    

21. Who hath a fair wife, needs more than two eyes.—Proverb
    

22. The cunning wife makes her husband her apron.—Proverb
    

23. Wives must be had, be they good or bad.—Proverb
    

24. There is but one good wife in the world, and every man thinks he has her.—Proverb
    

25. Ne'er seek a wife till ye ken what to do wi' her.—Proverb
    

26. It is better to marry a quiet fool than a witty scold.—Proverb
    

27. He that tells his wife news, is but lately married.—Proverb
    

28. He that speaks ill of his wife dishonoureth himself.—Proverb
    

29. He that loseth his wife and a farthing bath a great loss of a farthing.—Proverb
    

30. He has great need of a wife that marries mamma's darling.—Proverb
    

31. He has a great fancy to marry, that goes to the devil for a wife.—Proverb
    

32. A fair wife without a fortune, is a fine house without furniture.—Proverb
    

33. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.—Proverb
    

34. Better be a shrew than a sheep.—Proverb
    

35. An obedient wife commands her husband.—Proverb
    

36. Long loved, long woo'd, and lately won,
    My life's best hope, and now mine own.—SCOTT, The Bridal of Triermain
    

37. You are my true and honourable wife,
    As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
    That visit my sad heart.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

38. A light wife doth make a heavy husband.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

39. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

40. Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
    Even such a woman oweth to her husband.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

41. Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
    With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
    Steel-true and blade-straight
    The great artificer made my mate.—STEVENSON, To My Wife
    

42. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.—BILLY SUNDAY
    

43. An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.—TARKINGTON