To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation-this is the greatest blessing.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant, and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.
Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
A man's best friend is a good wife.
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
