"Modesty is a great thing, for Moses our Leader was endowed with it. " ~~ Midrash Gadol Ugdulah
"A beautiful wife makes for happiness and her husband’s days are doubled." ~~ Talmud, Yebamot 63b
"The wife of a scholar is accounted one, too." ~~ Talmud, Avoda Zara
"House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a wise wife is from the Lord." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 19:14
"In pain shall you bear children. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) 3:16
"If your wife be chaste, why should you watch her? If she be not, you will watch her in vain." ~~ Mishle Yehoshua
"A woman watches a guest more grudgingly than a man. " ~~ Talmud, Bava Metzia
"Everything comes from the woman—a good and worthy wife makes her husband righteous, and the opposite is also true. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.
"Modesty is the greatest virtue in the world." ~~ Beth Hamidrash
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? " ~~ Barbra Streisand
"Who is rich? Who has a wife lovely in her deeds." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"I never call my wife “wife”: I call her “home”—for it is she who makes my home." ~~ [adapted from] Talmud, Shabbat 118b
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