<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Wives - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61881]]></link><description><![CDATA[An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61874]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace combine   To stamp the marriage-bond divine?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61877]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thy face have I seen the eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61870]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thy face have I seen the eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing,  She is a bonny wee thing,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61872]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing,  She is a bonny wee thing,   This sweet wee wife o' mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61868]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying  To save her poor husband as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61869]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying  To save her poor husband as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been   If we had never met!    And has that thought been shared by thee?     Ah, no! that smiling cheek      Proves more unchanging love for me       Than labor'd words could speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61859]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road,   An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61853]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61856]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20191</guid></item></channel></rss>