Marriage & Partnership: Husband & Wife Quotes

Discover a balanced collection of quotes that reflect the bond between husband and wife. Selections highlight companionship, trust, shared responsibilities, and the everyday moments that build a resilient partnership. Whether you are seeking thoughtful words for a celebration, a quiet reminder of commitment, or insights into communication and empathy, these quotes offer calm inspiration. Explore perspectives that value mutual respect, humor, and patience while honoring the unique journeys couples take together.

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"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed"

Lou Costello, Comedian

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

Frederick Sanger

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out"

Lee Grant, Actress

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

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

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave"

Martin Luther, Professor

Martin Luther

"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended"

Cher, Musician

Cher

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed"

Harold MacMillan, Politician

Harold MacMillan

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife"

Prince Philip, Royalty

"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills"

Kate Chopin, Author

"A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"A man in the house is worth two in the street"

Mae West, Actress

Mae West

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband"

Euripides, Poet

Euripides

"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"A husband without faults is a dangerous observer"

George Savile, Politician

George Savile

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night"

Chanakya, Politician

"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

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

Richard Armour, Poet

"I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight"

Bess Truman, First Lady

Bess Truman

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