Husbands Quotes · Page 6

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

— Paul the Apostle

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

— Peggy Guggenheim

“The idiot will tire soon enough of his playthings and will come home; husbands always do.”

— Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

— Abigail Adams

“Bottom line, we don't trust our husbands and we want our own way.”

— Anonymous

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

— John Gay

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

— Patricia Wentworth

“When I focus on the way "men" or "husbands" generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I…

— Gretchen Rubin

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas…

— Panio Gianopoulos

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted…

— Karen Abbott

The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita'…

— Firooz Zahedi

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I…

— Jackie Collins

“Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a…

— Judith Warner

It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when…

— Faye J Crosby

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and…

— Gail Collins

I'd had boyfriends berate me for not having dinner on the table, calling me lazy for sitting around with the grout in…

— Stephanie Land

The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have…

— Bettina Arndt

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow…

— Megan Fox

Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do…

— Samuel R. Delany

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence…

— Frank Wolf

There's a place for corporate wives, but there's no place for corporate husbands.

— Karen Valenstein

“Rakes make good husbands. Especially when they fall in love.”

— Jess Michaels

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

— H. L. Mencken

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

— Brenda Ueland

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day.

— Cher

I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much

— Ann Coulter

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.

— Laura Schlessinger

“When offended, husbands should “act like men, be strong”(1 Corinthians 16:13).”

— Emerson Eggerichs

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

— Margaret of Valois

“The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.”

— Toby Forward

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

— Caroline Leavitt

“To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it

— Dottie Archibald

“all the husbands That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself Hardly one subject.”

— William Shakespeare

Men who don't understand women fall into two groups: Bachelors and Husbands.

— Daniel Tosh

Husbands should not have to earn respect anymore than wives should have to earn love.

— Anonymous