Wife Selection Quotes

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Five wives can't all be wrong.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.