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A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Unknown

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

An ideal wife is any wife who has an ideal husband

Booth Tarkington

Reginald Farrer

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Mignon McLaughlin

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Benjamin Disraeli

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of.

T.H. Everett

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Alexander Pope

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.

Charles Reade

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

French Proverb

A family member asked my wife, "Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?" My wife gave this response: "Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school, walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see that you think our son should emulate."

Manfred B. Zysk

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

George Gilder

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

Charles Baudelaire

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

Richard Bach

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Mother Theresa

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee

Anne Bradstreet

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jim Backus

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

E.W. Howe

Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Brooks Hays

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.

Henry Louis Mencken

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the bestî

Benjamin Franklin

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Will Durant

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Honore de Balzac

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