A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
Edgar Watson Howe 

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley 

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) 

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams 

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner 

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Baudelaire 

A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches.
Poor Jimmy's Almanac

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Mae West (1892-1980) 

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)