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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lou Costello, Comedian

Lou Costello

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

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"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

"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

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

Lee Grant, Actress

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

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

"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

"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

"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

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"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

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

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"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

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

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

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

Cher, Musician

Cher

"All my six husbands married me for different reasons"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

Hedy Lamarr

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

Christine Baranski, Actress

"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

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

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

Queen Victoria

"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

Chanakya

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

Zig Ziglar, Author

"For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one"

Hesiod, Poet

Hesiod

"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

"But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

Patty Hearst

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

Kate Chopin, Author

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

Prince Philip, Royalty

"We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

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