Wife Quotes

A good wife is heaven’s last, best gift to man, his fem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares.

Jeremy Taylor.

There is one name which I can never utter without a reverence due to the religion which binds earth to heaven a name cheered, beautified, exalted and hallowed and that is the name of wife.

Bulwer.

Sole partner, and sole part of all my joys, dearer thyself than all.

Milton.

A faithful wife becomes the truest and tenderest friend, the balm of comfort, and the source of joy; through every various turn of life the same.

Savage.

There is nothing upon this earth that can be compared with the faithful attachment  of a wife; no creature who, for the object of hr love, is so indomitable, so persevering, so ready to suffer and die. Under the most depressing circumstances, woman’s weaknesses become a mighty power; her timidity becomes fearless courage; all her shrinking and sinking passes away; and her spirit acquires the firmness of marble adamantine firmness when circumstances drive her to put forth all her energy and the inspiration of her affections.

Daniel Webster.

A wife’s a man’s best piece; who till he marries, wants making up: she is the shrine to which nature doth send us forth on pilgrimage; she is the good man’s paradise, and the bad’s first step to heaven, a treasure which, who wants, cannot be trusted to posterity, nor pay his own debts; she’s a golden sentence writ by our Maker, which the angels may discourse of, only men know how to use, and none but devils violate.

Shirley.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Shakespeare.

It very seldom happens that a man is slow enough in assuming the character of a husband, or a woman quick enough in condescending to that of a wife.

Addison.

When a young woman behaves to her parents in a manner particularly tender and respectful, from principle as well as nature, there is nothing good and gentle that may not be expected from her in whatever condition she is placed. Of this I am so thoroughly persuaded, that, were I to advise any friend of mine as to his choice of a wife, I know not whether my first counsel would be, “Look out for one distinguished by her attention and sweetness to her parents.”

Fordyce.

She is adorned amply, that in her husband’s eye looks lovely the truest mirror that an honest wife can see her beauty in.

J.Tobin.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Fuller.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is what a ministering angel she is, until he has gone with her through the fiery trails of this world.

Washington Irving.

Her pleasures are in the happiness of her family.

Rousseau.

A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy, and adds a sweetness to its pleasures: She is a man’s best companion in prosperity, and his best if not only friend in adversity; the most careful preserver of his health, and the kindest attendant on his sickness; a faithful adviser in distress, a comforter in affliction, and a discreet manager of all his domestic affairs.

L.M.Stretch.

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

Chas. Reade.

If you would have a good wife marry one ho has been a good daughter.

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband’s estate; and, if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match.

Fuller.

Unhappy is the man for whom his own life has not made all other women sacred.

You are my true and honorable wife, as dear to me, as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart.

Shakespeare.

O Woman! When the good man of the house may return, when the heat and burden pf the day is past, do not let him at such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded by discouragement, find upon his coming that the foot which should hasten to  meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other houses.

Washington Irving.