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"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."
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"I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan."
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"He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'"
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"It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass."
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"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

"I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure."

"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."

"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."

"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
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