Wife Quotes
505 quotes
"If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder."
"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."
"I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife."
"Anything disguised as anything is chameleon. A ghost disguised as an unobservable and invisible object is a great example. Still, that’s easier to see than the love my ex wife had for me."
"The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room."
"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."
"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
"Man may never stop being inconsistent.For his desires and passions moult consistentlyHusbands, be aware that your wife will always be inconsistent.The woman should know that He will never cease to amaze herHence, tie not your love to your characters.Let your souls cleave.Still he who has erred should be open to corrections for such things can also cleave a non-crossable path between them."
"Sexual intimacy is a relationship, not just body parts coming together. The more comfortable you are with each other outside the bedroom; the easier it is to relax and the sweeter the intimacy!"
Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
"Love, they said, burns youand builds you.But with you, there’s no ash.Just light."
"Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?"
"Dear newlywed wife, somebody out there is determined to shape your view of intimacy and marriage. You get to choose who will shape your opinion; the Author of marriage or offended humans?"
Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
"What if, in the bigger scheme of things, God put the yearning and desire for our husbands, not so a man could fulfill all of it, but so we could catch a glimpse of what it means to fully and wholly yearn for God?"
Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
"O my love, my wife!Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breathHath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
"These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all."
"Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa."
"To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?"
"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."
"A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true."
"Some people will hate you for not loving them."
"The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you."
"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful."
"He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light."
"It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead."
"In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love."
"My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength."
"Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you."
"A soulmate is a direct pathway to God."
"Always remember: marriage is a gift. Allow the revelation to direct your thoughts and habits in marriage."
Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
"I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light."
"Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?"
"First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage."
"It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man."
"Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it."
"Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them."
"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]"
"A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it."
"A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife."
"The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me."
"And when you lay in bed with your wife,are you mentally there or with the women on TV? Or the women who you've been intimate with though the screens? You not only compare your wife to these women but also love her as though she was someone elsePhysically present when making love to her but mentally absent from herYou kiss her lips while your heart kisses the "screen woman"
"Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ..."
"Dear women, do not marry until you find your true being, your mission"
"Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer"
"Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet."
"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal"
"If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against your chest. If I can’t be your love, then let me be a forgotten coin so I may rest a while against your thigh. If I can’t be your love, then let me be an unlit cigarette so I may rest a while in between your lips. If I can’t be your love, then let me at least remain in these words so I may rest a while in your thoughts."
"I will drive the world crazywith love poems for you.So they can know how magnificent you areand how crazy I am."
"I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth."
"Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue."
"I fell in loveand then I became love."
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