Quotes Tagged "wife"

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.


I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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.

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.

Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.