Top 100 Marriage Husbands Quotes
#1. Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.
Suzanne Finnamore
#2. No wonder so many marriages ended in divorce. Marriage sucked and husbands were the worse.
Kylie Scott
#3. At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.
Sachin Kundalkar
#4. At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.
Gabriel Chevallier
#5. Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages.
Georgette Heyer
#6. In 1895, Ann Strong declared in the Minneapolis Tribune that bicycles were "just as good company as most husbands" and that when a bicycle gets shabby or old a woman could "dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.
Frances E. Willard
#7. Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical ... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her.
Julia Child
#8. They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.
Anne Finch
#9. I like the way we talk to each other. It feels honest. It was different with Manuel. One of us always had to win. Husbands and wives do that, worry more about being right than being truthful.
Richard Lange
#10. Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.
Sheri L. Dew
#11. Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands or not by observing how they treat or mistreat their cars.
David Mitchell
#12. How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God?
Ramakrishna
#13. If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#14. The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Wilson Mizner
#16. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William Shakespeare
#17. Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
Juvenal
#18. I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.
Debbie Macomber
#19. How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#20. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace Stegner
#21. I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether ...
Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
#22. I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.
Cloris Leachman
#23. The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#24. Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
Erica Jong
#25. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
#26. I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
John Gabriel Stedman
#29. Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotance.
Helen Oyeyemi
#30. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore De Balzac
#31. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle ... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
Elizabeth Peters
#32. Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.
John Le Carre
#33. This woman enabled her husband to cheat, and she wasn't doing either one of them any favors. Instead of leaving him, she would take him home, scold him, and then carry on with business as usual. Inside though, she would be hurting.
No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.
Rose Wynters
#34. Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.
Billy Graham
#35. It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
Thomas Hardy
#36. What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
Mignon McLaughlin
#37. Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.
Joan Collins
#38. As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
Quentin Crisp
#39. But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn't share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word
Nora Ephron
#40. Most wives fuck their husbands, just to ensure financial support. Marriage is just a form of legalized prostitution, when you really thought about it.
K. Syrah
#41. How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
Christine De Pizan
#42. Popularity
The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
H.L. Mencken
#43. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
Ann Bancroft
#44. You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.
Richard Paul Evans
#46. He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land.
The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure.
Randy
from Spring Cleaning
Coming Summer 2012
Brandi Salazar
#47. As a society, let's all strive to make "old fashioned" the "new fashion". Husbands make it clear to your wives that you are on a mission to become her knight in shining armor.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#48. Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Jennifer E. Smith
#49. Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
Pope Leo XIII
#50. Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)
Sandra Gould
#51. There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
Jean De La Bruyere
#52. I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
#53. But a woman's right to leave a marriage can also be a lifesaver for men. The Centers on Disease Control reports that the rate at which husbands were killed by their wives fell by approximately two-thirds between 1981 and 1998, in part because women could more easily leave their partners.32
Stephanie Coontz
#54. Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
Cher
#55. Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?
Melanie Benjamin
#56. It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us ... subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.
Billy Graham
#57. Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.
Kristin Hannah
#58. A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Robert A. Heinlein
#59. Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
Honore De Balzac
#61. Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Pat Conroy
#62. No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.
Sheri L. Dew
#63. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.
Pat Conroy
#64. As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.
Scott Means
#65. An 'usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev'ry corner for a more succulent chop,' declares Elsie.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#66. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
John Piper
#67. In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.
Ashlyn Macnamara
#68. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman
#69. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
#70. Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
William Shakespeare
#71. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.
Bryan Fischer
#72. Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#73. This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
Suzanne Finnamore
#74. But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#75. I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me!
Catherynne M Valente
#76. I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Reese Witherspoon
#77. 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
#78. When I focus on the way "men" or "husbands" generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I find myself feeling angry or annoyed with Jamie for things he hasn't even done.
Gretchen Rubin
#79. The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life.
Azelene Williams
#80. That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."
Francis George
#81. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Thomas Dekker
#82. Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all ... You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80
talking about marriage and husbands
Elizabeth Berg
#83. To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#84. I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.
Susan Sontag
#85. The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).
Gloria Steinem
#86. What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?
Kim Van Alkemade
#87. Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#88. It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.
Dennis Adonis
#89. When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.
Joel Manby
#90. I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
Agatha Christie
#91. There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
Sacha Guitry
#92. Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. t The husbands lived two hours away...
Charles Frazier
#93. An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
Jane Austen
#94. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Shannon L. Alder
#95. Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux
#96. Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired.
Edith Wharton
#97. I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
Ava Gardner
#98. For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon's personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus's were merely whims.
Panio Gianopoulos
#99. First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.
Osho
#100. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.
Zora Neale Hurston
