Wives Quotes
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- A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.~ Spanish Proverb
- A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.~ Dutch Proverb
- A deaf husband and a blind wife will always make a happy couple.~ Danish Proverb
- A good dog does not bite a chicken and a good man does not hit his wife.~ Chinese Proverb
- A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.~ Traditional Proverb
- A good wife makes a good husband.~ Wives Quotes
- A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife.~ Cambodian Proverb
- A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.~ Author Unknown
- All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. ~ Thomas Fuller
- A man too good for the world is no good for his wife.~ Yiddish Proverb
- An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.~ Sacha Guitry
- An obedient wife commands her husband.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.~ Author Unknown
- A sad bride makes a glad wife.~ Dutch Proverb
- Ask for your wife’s advice and then do the opposite.~ Arabian Proverb
- As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.~ Iranian Proverb
- A wife is frightened of her first husband and a husband is frightened of his second wife.~ Serbian Proverb
- A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.~ Russian Proverb
- A woman is attractive when she is somebody else’s wife.~ Zimbabwean Proverb
- Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.~ Hubert H. Humphrey
- Better a bad wife than an empty house.~ Ivorian Proverb
- Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.~ Thomas Fuller
- Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye.~ English Proverb
- Choose a wife to please yourself, not others.~ Romanian Proverb
- Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.~ Traditional Proverb
- Complain about the house where the husband is the wife.~ Romanian Proverb
- Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.~ Chinese Proverb
- Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.~ Czechoslovakian Proverb
- Do not choose your wife on your way to the church.~ Estonian Proverb
- For whom does the blind man’s wife paint herself? ~ English Proverb
- Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.~ Estonian Proverb
- He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.~ Thomas Fuller
- He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.~ Spanish Proverb
- He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.~ Bosnian Proverb
- If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.~ Gary Smalley
- If a wife is unfaithful then the husband is partly to blame.~ Arabian Proverb
- If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.~ Anne Bradstreet
- If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.~ Italian Proverb
- If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.~ Yiddish Proverb
- If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.~ Spanish Proverb
- If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.~ Thomas Fuller
- I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.~ Rodney Dangerfield
- I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.~ David Bissonette
- It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife.~ Hungarian Proverb
- I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.~ Henny Youngman
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.~ Jane Austen
- It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.~ Dolores Ibarruri
- Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife’s clothes. ~ Thomas Dewar
- Laughing wife, crying purse.~ South American Proverb
- Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.~ Jim Backus
- Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.~ Zig Ziglar
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.~ Winston Churchill
- My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met!~ Rodney Dangerfield
- My wife doesn’t care what I do when I’m away, as long as I don’t have a good time. ~ Lee Trevino
- Neither reprove nor flatter your wife where people hear or see it.~ Dutch Proverb
- Never strike your wife, even with a flower.~ Hindu Proverb
- Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.~ Scottish Proverb
- No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.~ Harold Macmillan
- No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.~ Author Unknown
- Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.~ Samuel Johnson
- One God, one wife, but many friends.~ Dutch Proverb
- One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.~ Groucho Marx
- Only take away the wife of a strong man when he is out.~ Ugandan Proverb
- Pick your wife in the kitchen.~ Japanese Proverb
- Pretty wife, old wine — many friends.~ Bulgarian Proverb
- She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.~ Hitopadesa
- Show me your wife and I will tell you what kind of a husband she has.~ Catalonian Proverb
- Teach your son in the front garden and your wife on the pillow.~ Chinese Proverb
- That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.~ George Eliot
- The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The best or the worst for a man is his wife.~ Spanish Proverb
- The devil sweetens another man’s wife with a spoonful of honey.~ French Proverb
- The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog.~ Turkish Proverb
- The husband’s mother is the wife’s devil.~ German Proverb
- The lover of a student does not always become the wife of a graduate.~ Mexican Proverb
- The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets that she took him.~ Traditional Proverb
- The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.~ Portuguese Proverb
- There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.~ American Proverb
- There are two kinds of marriages — where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.~ Clifford Odets
- There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.~ Russian Proverb
- The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.~ Cyril Connolly
- The wife cries before the wedding, the husband after.~ Luxembourg Proverb
- The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out.~ Russian Proverb
- The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.~ Hungarian Proverb
- The wife who always insists on the last word often has it.~ Kenneth Hutchin
- The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.~ Armenian Proverb
- This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.~ William Shakespeare
- Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.~ Author Unknown
- To truly love your wife, leave her alone every once in a while.~ Malaysian Proverb
- Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.~ William A. Sunday
- Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.~ German Proverb
- What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.~ Phyllis Schlafly
- When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.~ Sacha Guitry
- When a neighbor gets divorced everyone thinks of his own wife.~ Swiss Proverb
- When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket.~ Vietnamese Proverb
- When the husband earns well, the wife spends well.~ Dutch Proverb
- Where there is no wife, there is no home.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
- Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.~ Chinese Proverb
- Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.~ Egyptian Proverb
- Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house and a happy life.~ Dutch Proverb
- Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.~ Groucho Marx
- Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
- Your wife’s eyes are in your purse.~ Romanian Proverb
- Your wife and your wheelbarrow are two things that you should never lend to anyone.~ Luxembourg Proverb
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