Subject: Marriage » Wives (Page 2)

Take my wife… please!

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

It is better to have an ugly wife for one’s self than a beautiful wife for others.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

(1931 – ) American author & newspaper journalist

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

My wife and I had words – but I never got to use mine.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.

My wife gets all the money I make… I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job… my wife told me.

(1920 – 1991) American poet

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Here's to our wives and girlfriends… may they never meet!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

One man's folly is another man's wife.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

My wife has cut me down to once a month; I'm lucky…
I know two guys she cut off completely.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol