Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

I don't like those men who claim that their wife is their best friend. . . . I think spouses should tolerate each other and occasionally have sex.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

My wife has a keen sense of humor. The more I humor her, the better.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.