Wife Quotes

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

~ Stockwell Day

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

~ Marla Maples

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

~ Jeremy Taylor

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

~ John Gay

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

~ Frank Carson

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

~ Sacha Guitry

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

~ Millicent Carey Mcintosh

Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.

~ J. J. Watt

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

~ Anna Kendrick

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

~ Maurice Gibb

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

~ Alexander The Great

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

~ Lana Turner

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

~ Jay Leno

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

~ James Herriot

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

~ Gene Wilder

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

~ Aaron Staton

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

~ Helen Rowland

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

~ Lou Holtz

Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.

~ Brian Wilson

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

~ Joseph Roux

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

~ Larry Hagman

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

~ Ty Burrell

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

~ Marvin Sapp

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

~ Pamela Adlon

My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.

~ Alec Baldwin

My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

~ Jason Isbell

My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when she was born; my mom was 15 when I was born. So, as we got older, we started thinking a lot about that - about the time that those people missed because we came along when we did and because they devoted so much of their lives to taking care of us.

~ Jason Isbell

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

~ Nick Saban

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed. You shut down. I got that really fast... I was running back and forth from breast-feeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.

~ Jenna Dewan

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

~ Emma Bonino

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

~ Dorothy Fields

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

~ Thomas Fuller

My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

~ Billy Crystal

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.

~ Jimmy Fallon

Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.

~ Nolan Bushnell

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

~ Maurice Gibb