“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory”
Thomas Szas
“And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.”
Bible
“What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”
Ovid
“All married women are not wives”
Japanese Proverb
“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”
Ogden Nash
“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller