Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old wife quotes, wife sayings, and wife proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A wife is a little dove and a little devil.Yiddish Proverb
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A wife who has no children makes a dear and delightful friend to her husband's heirs.Roman Proverb
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A good wife and health is a man's best wealthEnglish Proverb
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A wife is sought for her virtue, a concubine for her beauty.Chinese Proverb
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A good man does not get a good wife, and a leper marries a flowering branch.Chinese Proverb
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The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband.1 Cor 7:14
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She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.Prov 31:27
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord.Eph 5:22
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Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favour of the Lord.Prov 18:22
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There's more to a marriage than husband and wife.Spanish Proverb
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How gently glides the married life away, when she who rules still seems but to obey.English Proverb
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I...chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.Oliver Goldsmith
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at peace, and so am I.John Dryden
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He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce, I keep the house.Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Everyone knows that the real business of a ball is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else's wife.R.S. Surtees
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Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.William Congreve
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Marriage is not a reform school...instead of you reforming your spouse, he or she will instead influence you.Billy Graham
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My wife often said that 'a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.'Billy Graham
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The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respectBilly Graham
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A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.Billy Graham
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If ever two were one, then surely we. / If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; / If ever wife was happy in a man, / Compare with me ye women if you can.Anne Bradstreet
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The fundamental error of their matrimonial union; that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.Thomas Hardy
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That's silly talk...Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.Obama
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Man gets nothing brighter than a kind wife.Semonides
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I need a hand to nail the right, / A help, a love, a you, a wife.Allan Dugan
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into ruins.Samuel Johnson
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A man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.Euripedes
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.Booth Tarkington
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Teacher, tender, comrade, wife, / A fellow-farer true through life, / Heart-whole and soul-free / The august father / Gave to me.Robert Louis Stevenson
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At times this; and At times that; the list is endless but still a fraction too frugal to describe her divinely countenance; as she was everything for me in my impoverished life; she was my immortal wife.Nikhil Parekh