These wife quotes will inspire you. Wife a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage or a married woman considered in relation to her spouse.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging wife quotes, wife sayings, and wife proverbs.
Famous Wife Quotes
- “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
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“In my house, I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision-maker.” ~ Woody Allen
- “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” ~ Harold MacMillan
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“When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” ~ Ruth Graham
- “There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.” ~ Henry Fielding
- “The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.” ~ Voltaire
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“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.” ~ Bill Cosby
- “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
- “Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything.” ~ Norman Lear
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“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.” ~ Andrew Jackson
- “He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.” ~ Jeremy Taylor , Wife quotes love
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“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar
- “A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A good husband makes a good wife at any time.” ~ George Farquhar
- “When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” ~ Sacha Guitry
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“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Wives don’t need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider – God!!” ~ Nick Vujicic
- “If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.” ~ Khalil Gibran , Husband wife quotes
- “I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield
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“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” ~ Prince Philip
- “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.” ~ Robert Frost
- “When a man makes a woman his wife it’s the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it’s the last.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.” ~ Henny Youngman
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“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife.” ~ David Ogilvy
- “I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.” ~ William Wycherley
- “When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.” ~ Yasmin Mogahed
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“A wife is like a children’s movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.” ~ Joey Adams
- “She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.” ~ William Penn
- “The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “A light wife doth make a heavy husband.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won’t in my sky every day…” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “Sir, I have quarreled with my wife; and a man who has quarreled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.” ~ Thomas Love Peacock
- “Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It’s our only joke. Every woman knows that.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.” ~ Anthony Trollope
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“I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
- “To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t.” ~ Victor Borge
- “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
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“I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.” ~ Alec Douglas-Home
- “You know, my life’s changed now. I’m starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You’re supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.” ~ Mike Epps
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“Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “The reason they’re called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled – it’s just the opposite!” ~ Walter Winchell
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir
- “He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “If a politician isn’t doing it to his wife, then he’s doing it to his country.” ~ Amy Grant
