A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife.
Neither reprove nor flatter your wife where people hear or see it.
Who is tired of happy days, let him take a wife.
Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.
As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.
The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out.
Why marry, when your neighbor's wife is ready to go to bed with you?
If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.
Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.
It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
[flashback] Leonard Shelby: How can you read that again? Leonard's Wife: It's good. Leonard Shelby: Yeah, but you read it like a thousand times. Leonard's Wife: I enjoy it. Leonard Shelby: I always thought the pleasure of a book was wanting to know w...
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.
A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself...
He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.
Don't trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons.
The idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly.
If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies -- oh ! what a pity about the money.
Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.
