The Jewish Wisdom Database

Who is rich? The man with a wife of pleasant deeds. . .with contentment in his riches.

The wife of a scholar is accounted one, too.

Guard the portals of your lips from her that lies in your bosom!

Who is without wife should not teach children.

More than man wishes to marry, woman wishes to wed.

Every widower finds his world darkened.

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of your vain life.

A good wife is a crown to her husband.

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a wise wife is from the Lord.

Who can find a good wife? Her price is far above pearls.

Cursed be he whose wife is faithful and himself is not!

A graceful wife lends grace to her husband.

Who is rich? Who has a wife lovely in her deeds.

A wife is one's heart's delight.

There is no end to the goodness of the good wife, and none to the wickedness of a bad one.

A wife's bickering is as an endless dripping of rain.

A wicked wife is like leprosy to her husband.

Everything has an end except a bad wife.

A bad wife scorches you worse than fire, and chokes you worse than rope or water.

If your wife is tiny, bend down and whisper for her counsel!

A husband should be at pains to treat his wife with respect (...not to hurt his wife's feelings).

A man may sell his Scrolls of the Law to take a wife.

A man who marries a second time remembers all his first wife did.

A man cannot live without a woman or a woman live without a man.

A wifeless man exists without joy, without blessing or boon.