Quotes about Husbands

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  1. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. - Abigail Adams, First Lady
    22-Dec-1744 - 28-Oct-1818
     
  2. My husband's a director, so he understands what I do. - Sasha Alexander, Actress
    17-May-1975
     
  3. When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. - Shana Alexander, Journalist
    06-Oct-1925 - 23-Jun-2005
     
  4. So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting. - June Allyson, Actress
    07-Oct-1917 - 08-Jul-2006
     
  5. The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. - B. R. Ambedkar, Politician
    14-Apr-1891 - 06-Dec-1956
     
  6. The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. - Cleveland Amory, Historian
    02-Sep-1917 - 14-Oct-1998
     
  7. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. - Barbara de Angelis, Writer
     
  8. When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. - David Antin, Poet
    01-Feb-1932
     
  9. I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. - Marie Antoinette, Royalty
    02-Nov-1755 - 16-Oct-1793
     
  10. I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. - Corazon Aquino, Statesman
    25-Jan-1933
     
  11. Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. - Richard Armour, Poet
     
  12. But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? - Mary Astell, Writer
    12-Dec-1666 - 11-May-1731
     
  13. With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. - Louis Auchincloss, Novelist
    27-Sep-1917
     
  14. I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. - John James Audubon, Scientist
    26-Apr-1785 - 27-Jan-1851
     
  15. Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. - Jane Austen, Writer
    16-Dec-1775 - 28-Jul-1817
     
  16. I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. - Lauren Bacall, Actress
    16-Sep-1924
     
  17. The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. - Honore De Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  18. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. - Honore de Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  19. Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. - Honore De Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  20. A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. - Honore de Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  21. A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. - Honore De Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  22. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. - Honore de Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  23. It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. - Honore de Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  24. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. - Ann Bancroft, Explorer
    29-Sep-1955
     
  25. Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. - Brigitte Bardot, Actress
    28-Sep-1934
     
  26. I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. - Ellen Barkin, Actress
    16-Apr-1955
     
  27. My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three. - Ellen Barkin, Actress
    16-Apr-1955
     
  28. Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised. - Julia Barr, Actress
    08-Feb-1949
     
  29. I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around. - Julia Barr, Actress
    08-Feb-1949
     
  30. My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. - Roseanne Barr, Actress
    03-Nov-1952
     
  31. As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. - Roseanne Barr, Actress
    03-Nov-1952
     
  32. My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. - Jennifer Beals, Actress
    19-Dec-1963
     
  33. I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth. - Melissa Bean, Politician
    22-Jan-1962
     
  34. No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. - James Beattie
     
  35. To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. - Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
    09-Jan-1908 - 14-Apr-1986
     
  36. I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! - Catherine Bell, Model
    14-Aug-1968
     
  37. I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. - Annette Bening, Actress
    29-May-1958
     
  38. Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. - Arnold Bennett, Novelist
    27-May-1867 - 27-Mar-1931
     
  39. I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband. - Julie Benz, Actress
    01-May-1972
     
  40. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. - Milton Berle, Comedian
    12-Jul-1908 - 27-Mar-2002
     
  41. Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. - Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
    24-Jun-1842
     
  42. I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too. - Honor Blackman, Actress
    12-Dec-1927
     
  43. The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband. - William Blackstone, Judge
    10-Jul-1723 - 14-Feb-1780
     
  44. What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing. - Dewitt Bodeen
     
  45. People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. - Erma Bombeck, Journalist
    21-Feb-1927 - 22-Apr-1996
     
  46. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. - Erma Bombeck, Journalist
    21-Feb-1927 - 22-Apr-1996
     
  47. For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the materni - Erma Bombeck, Journalist
    21-Feb-1927 - 22-Apr-1996
     
  48. A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. - James H. Boren, Public Servant
     
  49. Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business. - Tom Bosley, Actor
    01-Oct-1927
     
  50. My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else. - Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer
    03-Jun-1930 - 25-Sep-1999
     
  51. The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. - Sarah Brady, Activist
    06-Feb-1942
     
  52. I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that. - Jo Brand, Comedian
    03-May-1957
     
  53. In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. - Gerald Brenan, Writer
     
  54. Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. - Poppy Z. Brite, Author
    25-May-1967
     
  55. I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home. - Poppy Z. Brite, Author
    25-May-1967
     
  56. I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk w - Vera Brittain, Writer
    29-Dec-1893 - 29-Mar-1970
     
  57. For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. - Tammy Bruce, Author
    19-Aug-1962
     
  58. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. - Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
    06-Jun-1892 - 06-Mar-1973
     
  59. I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband. - Billie Burke, Actress
    07-Aug-1885 - 14-May-1970
     
  60. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. - Barbara Bush, First Lady
    08-Jun-1925
     
  61. If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  62. But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  63. I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  64. I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  65. I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our coun - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  66. I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  67. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  68. I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too. - Laura Bush, First Lady
    04-Nov-1946
     
  69. Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. - George Byron, Poet
    22-Jan-1788 - 19-Apr-1824
     
  70. Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. - Mary S. Calderone
     
  71. Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. - Al Capp, Cartoonist
    28-Sep-1909 - 05-Nov-1979
     
  72. It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down wit - Donald Cargill, Clergyman
     
  73. A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. - Barbara Cartland, Novelist
    09-Jul-1901 - 21-May-2000
     
  74. I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little. - Nancy Cartwright, Actress
    25-Oct-1957
     
  75. I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. - June Carter Cash, Musician
    23-Jun-1929 - 15-May-2003
     
  76. When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human con - Nicolas de Chamfort, Writer
     
  77. 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. - Chanakya, Politician
     
  78. Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. - Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet
    1343 - 25-Oct-1400
     
  79. I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. - Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
    29-Jan-1860 - 14-Jul-1904
     
  80. I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands. - Cher, Musician
    20-May-1946
     
  81. Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. - Cher, Musician
    20-May-1946
     
  82. Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist. - Judy Chicago, Artist
    20-Jul-1939
     
  83. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. - Agatha Christie, Writer
    15-Sep-1890 - 12-Jan-1976
     
  84. Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false. - Connie Chung, Journalist
    20-Aug-1946
     
  85. The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist
    28-Jan-1873
     
  86. The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled. - Jackie Collins, Author
    04-Oct-1937
     
  87. I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife. - Joan Collins, Actress
    23-May-1933
     
  88. The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son. - Judy Collins, Musician
    01-May-1939
     
  89. My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment. - Nadia Comaneci, Athlete
    12-Nov-1961
     
  90. I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea. - Holly Marie Combs, Actress
    03-Dec-1973
     
  91. To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down. - Holly Marie Combs, Actress
    03-Dec-1973
     
  92. My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband. - John Conyers, Politician
    16-May-1929
     
  93. I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli, Novelist
    01-May-1855 - 21-Apr-1924
     
  94. A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. - Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
    06-Jun-1606 - 01-Oct-1684
     
  95. I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!! - Caroline Corr, Musician
    17-Mar-1973
     
  96. A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed. - Lou Costello, Comedian
    06-Mar-1906 - 03-Mar-1959
     
  97. I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role. - Deborah Cox, Musician
    13-Jul-1973
     
  98. Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. - Cindy Crawford, Model
    20-Feb-1966
     
  99. We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had. - Tony Curtis, Actor
    03-Jun-1925 - 29-Sep-2010
     
  100. I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. - Bette Davis, Actress
    05-Apr-1908 - 06-Oct-198
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