Posts Tagged “Woman”

Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ~ Chinese Proverb

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. ~ Jim Carrey

Behind every great man there is a great woman; and behind that woman is his wife. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every man is a good woman. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every successful man are a few ex-wives and a line of new prospects. ~ Author Unknown

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man there are a lot of unsuccessful years. ~  Bob Brown

Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear. ~ Harold Coffin

Behind every successful man, there is a woman – And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. ~ Author Unknown

Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. ~ Sim York Soo

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ~ Arthur E. Waite

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ~ Lord Dewar

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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

• A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.~ Cher
• Always remember this: ‘A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses’. ~ John Lennon
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.~ Plato
• Attraction is not a choice.~ David DeAngelo
• A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children.~ Murphy’s Laws of Sex
• Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.~ Rita Mae Brown
• Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.~ Mae West
• Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
• I’ve been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.~ Wendy Liebman

• I date this girl for two years—and then the nagging starts: ‘I wanna know your name…~ Mike Binder
• If you’ve been dating a man for four months and you haven’t met any of his friends, you are not his girlfriend.~ Chris Rock
• If you kiss on the first date and it’s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it’s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.~ Jennifer Lopez
• I have such poor vision I can date anybody.~ Garry Shandling
• It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.~ George Bernard Shaw
• It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ~ Dating quotes
• Let’’s face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night; The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you”ll end up naked at the end of it. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
• My boyfriend used to ask his mother, ‘How can I find the right woman for me?’ and she would answer, ‘Don’t worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.~ Dating Quotes
• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain. ~ Mae West
• Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary.~ I Ching
• Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.~ Robert A. Heinlein
• Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.~ Jim Bishop
• What’s nice about my dating life is that I don’t have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I’m marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.~ Julia Roberts
• When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn’t get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.~ Scott Wolf
• When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows. ~ Frederike Ryder
• Whenever I date a guy, I think, “Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? ~ Rita Rudner
• Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.~ Henry David Thoreau
• As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.~ Roseanne Barr
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.~ Phyllis Diller
• Housekeeping ain’t no joke.~ Louisa May Alcott
• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
• Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.~ Marcelene Cox
• Housework expands to fill the time you have for it.~ Hayley Foster
• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion.~ Fawn M. Brodie
• Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.~ Evan Esar
• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
• I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.~ Phyllis Diller
• I hate housework! You make the beds; you do the dishes. And six months later you have to start all over again.~ Joan Rivers
• Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn’t likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn’t remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• Marrying is easy, it’s housework that’s hard.~ Traditional Proverbs
• No matter how many house chores you complete, there are always more to be done.~ African Proverb
• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.~ Margaret Mead
• The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.~ Charlotte P. Gillman
• The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.~ Lady Hasluck
• When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.~ Katharine Whitehorn
• You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin