Subject: Marriage » Wives (Page 6)

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

(1924 – 2003) American comedian & actor

Why do men die before their wives? … Could it be because they want to?

(1967 – ) English comedian

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.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

They have come up with a perfect understanding; he won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

(1864 – 1930) Scottish whisky distiller

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don’t stand in her way.

(1911 – 1980) humorist, writer, television host & journalist

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

(1929 – ) British military historian, cook book writer & novelist

Here's to our wives and sweethearts – may they never meet.

(1863 – 1915) American actor

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do… but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

My wife gets so jealous; she came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

(1821 – 1867) French poet, essayist & art critic

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose; last night she used me to time an egg.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Every American woman has two souls to call her own, the other being her husband's.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

My wife was too beautiful for words… but not for arguments.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

Middle-age is the time of life, that a man first notices – in his wife.

(1906 – 1989) American poet & author

Now, it’s true I married my wife for her looks… but not the ones she's been givin’ me lately.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

God help the man who won’t marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

(1860 – 1943) British socialist, union leader & politician

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol