• I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 112 reads

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• If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 36 reads

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• It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 144 reads

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• London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 34 votes · 40 reads

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• Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 122 reads

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• Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 67 reads

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• No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 123 reads

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• That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 10 reads

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• The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 8 reads

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• The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 131 reads

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• This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 157 reads

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• Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.3 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 162 reads

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• Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 72 reads

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