A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter

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

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her

Where a husband makes clothing for his wife out of his own wool, although this is done for his wife and through solicitude for her, the clothing nevertheless, will belong to the husband nor does it make any difference whether the wife assisted in pr

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart

'The last word' is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation