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Wife Quotes


These are some of the best 'Wife' quotations and sayings.


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A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counsellors, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

A miss for pleasure, and a wife for breed.

A woman in a single state may be happy, or may be miserable, but most happy, and most miserable, these are epithets applicable only to the wife.

Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life: the evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.

Hanging and wiving go by destiny.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Her pleasures are in the happiness of her family.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

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.

It very seldom happens that a man is slow enough in assuming the character of a husband, or a woman quick enough in condescending to that of a wife.

My dear, my better half.

No man can live piously or die righteously without a wife.


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