Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up your family - unless it were asked of me. Then I would council you to get a bill from your wife and marry a virtuous woman - and a new family but if you do not do it I shall never throw it in your teeth.

Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.

The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

My wife and I never agree on the dishtowels. It's a matter of terms. She asks me not to put the dishtowel in the sink. So I drape it over the sink, but not in the sink. If that's our biggest problem, I think we're in good shape.

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.

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

And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

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

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.