Spousal Responsibility Quotes

I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

When you can't take care of your wife, how can you run the affairs of the country?

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.