All Quotes by Wives
“Use great prudence and circumspection, in choosing thy wife, for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once.”
“Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”
“The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”
“The wife of thy bosom.”
“"George", says Mr. Baguet. "You Know me. It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. Wait till the greens is off her mind. Thens we'll consult. Whatever the old girl says, do - do it!”
“You know I met you,With all the tenderness of wifely love.”
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life.”
“Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.”
“There are three faithful friends,an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
“An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.”
“Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.”
“He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.”
“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”
“One wife is too much for most husbands to bear,But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.”
“Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the power to write the words. She is the poem of my life.”
“I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.”
“Sail forth into the sea of life,Something immortal still survives.”
“An incautious congressman playfully ran his hand over Nick's shiny scalp and commented, "It feels just like my wife's backside". Nick instantly repeated the gesture. "So it does", he replied.”
“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,"Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings.”
“What thou bidd'stIs woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.”
“For nothing lovelier can be foundAnd good works in her husband to promote.”
“For what thou art is mine:One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”
“He who loves his wife loves himself.”
“Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.”
“She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,Yet has her humour most when she obeys.”
“The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.”
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”
“Regarding the treatment. of wives, the following verse in the Qur'an (Surah iv. 38) allows the husband absolute power to correct them: "Chide those whose refractoriness you have cause to fear. Remove them into sleeping chambers apart, and beat them. But if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them."”
“That is the moat perfect Muslim whose disposition is the best, and the best of you is he who behaves best to his wives.”
“When a man has two wives and does not treat them equally, he will come on the Day of Resurrection with half his body fallen off.”
“When a man calls his wife, she must come, although she be at an oven.”
“The Prophet used to divide his time equally amongst his wives, and he would say, 'O God, I divide impartially that which thou hast put in my power.'”
“Admonish your wives with kindness, because woman were created from a crooked bone of the side; therefore, if you wish to straighten it, you will break it, and if you let it alone, it will always be crooked."”
“Not one of you must whip his wife like whipping a slave.”
“A Muslim must not hate his wife, for if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, thou let him he pleased with another that is good.”
“A Muslim cannot obtain anything better than an amiable and beautiful wife, such a wife who, when ordered by her husband to do a thing, will obey, and if her husband looks at her will be happy; and if her husband swears by her, she will make him a swearer of truth; and if ha be absent from her, she will honour him with her own person and property.”
“As for my wife,You may pace easy, but not such a wife.”
“O ye gods,Render me worthy of this noble wife!”
“Happy in this, she is not yet so oldCommits itself to yours to be directed.”
“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”
“I will be master of what is mine own;And here she stands, touch her whoever dare.”
“Why, man, she is mine own,The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.”
“Should all despairWould hang themselves.”
“It is the duty of both men and women to honour their parents. However, a married woman, who owes devotion to her husband, is exempt from the precept of honouring her parents. Yet, she is obliged to do for the parents, all she can, if her husband does not object.”
“Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no Man worth having is true to his Wife, or can be true to his Wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”
“She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.”
“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”
“Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: An' her love, voe the jaÿ o' my soul.”
“And while the wicket falls behindI've little further now to go.”
“My fond affection thou hast seen, Than labor'd words could speak.”
“Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.”
“So bent on self-sanctifying,— To save her poor husband as well.”
“In thy face have I seen the eternal.”
“Were such the wife had fallen to my part,I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.”
“She is a winsome wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.”
“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!”
“Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.”
“What is there in the vale of lifeTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?”
“Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead,'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.”
“The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak;She could not think, but would not cease to speak.”
“In every mess I find a friend,In every port a wife.”
“They'll tell thee, sailors, when away, In every port a mistress find.”
“Roy's wife of Aldivalloch,As I cam o'er the braes of Balloch.”
“Now die the dream, or come the wife, Can never be again.”
“Andromache! my soul's far better part.”
“A wife, domestic, good, and pure,Place all her wealth upon her back.”
“Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.”
“Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.”
“He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch,Before the door had given her to his eyes.”
“But thou dost make the very night itselfBrighter than day.”
“How much the wife is dearer than the bride.”
“In the election of a wife, as inTo be undone forever.”
“Here were we fallen in a greate question of ye lawe whyther ye grey mare may be the better horse or not.”
“The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.”
“But what so pure, which envious tongues will spare?But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.”
“All other goods by fortune's hand are given,A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.”
“Fat, fair and forty.”
“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.”
“Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.”
“Light household duties, ever more inwroughtThus liveth she content, the meek, fond, trusting wife.”
“Thou art mine, thou hast given thy word, On its mystical circuit is winging.”
“When choosing a wife look down the social scale; when selecting a friend, look upwards.”
“A love still burning upward, giving lightThe queen of marriage, a most perfect wife.”
“A fat, fair and fifty card-playing resident of the Crescent.”
“The world well tried—the sweetest thing in lifeIs the unclouded welcome of a wife.”
“My winsome marrow.”