Faithful Wife Quotes:

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Ripple, Keep Your Faith

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Adventure, Wife, Faithful, Faithful Wife

Every morning I wake up and see, The most handsome man lying next to me. He's the one I cherish and love, A blessing sent from Heaven above. I will love him as a faithful wife

- J. Thomas Newsome

topic: Morning, Happy Anniversary, Lying, Faithful Wife, Handsome Men

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

- Martin Luther

topic: Love, Marriage, Sorry, Husband To Be, Husband Wife

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

- Sacha Guitry

topic: Marriage, Faith, Wife, Faithful Wife, Husband And Wife

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Wife, Faithful, Attention, Faithful Wife, Bookkeepers

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: 'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Moderation'

topic: Men, Class, Wife, Drinkers, Faithful Wife

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Friendship, Dog, Money, Making Friends, Cute Friendship

A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.

- Vance Havner

topic: Loyalty, Jesus, Husband, Faithful Wife, Part Time

Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.115, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Faithful Wife

What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

- Bhartrhari

topic: Happiness, Peace, Hero, Faithful Wife

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

- David Boreanaz

topic: Wife, Faithful, Infidelity, Tainted, Faithful Wife

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

- Toni Morrison

source: Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

topic: Mother, Nice, Good Friend, Loving Mother, Faithful Wife

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

- Anais Nin

topic: Believe, Thinking, Wife, Faithful Wife

Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.

- William Batchelder Greene

source: William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

topic: Rain, Sky, Wife, Faithful Wife

This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

- Orson F. Whitney

topic: Mother, Wife, Faithful, Faithful Wife