Quotes About A Husband

#1. The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,
for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Samuel Johnson

#2. The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Hugh Jackman

#3. Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself ... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

Gloria Steinem

#4. Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Martine Leavitt

#5. High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their twenties believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living.11

Stephanie Coontz

#6. A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#7. When a guy becomes a husband, he has a responsibility not to take as many chances as when he was single. It's called common sense. You'll depend on me not to get hurt or killed chasing an adrenaline rush.

Dee Henderson

#8. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Helen Rowland

#9. Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.

Lou Costello

#11. I've seen enough cowboys in my life that I know I don't want one for a husband." ...Victoria

"Every good man I know is a cowboy."

Scarlett Dunn

#12. Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Elsa Maxwell

#13. Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H.L. Mencken

#14. But I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so
modesty
are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

Daphne Du Maurier

#15. Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.

Maggie O'Farrell

#16. The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland

#17. You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago ...

Lindsay Armstrong

#18. When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.

Sam Ewing

#19. I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Esai Morales

#20. I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#21. When a husband and wife love each other, they reflect that same love that motivated Christ. They die to themselves and become one.

Aaron Smith

#22. I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

David Beckham

#23. Wh-what rational woman would ever want a husband who looks like you?

Lisa Kleypas

#24. I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.

Ben Sollee

#25. Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.

Greta Garbo

#26. The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

David Boaz

#27. How those girls enjoyed putting their nest in order! As Phil said, it was almost as good as getting married. You had the fun of homemaking without the bother of a husband.

L.M. Montgomery

#28. Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or ... whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

Cindy Woodsmall

#29. As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.

Winston Smith

#30. Directing is genderless. The only thing ... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

Lori Petty

#31. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

Ogden Nash

#32. The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#33. On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the wind had a rough manliness in its voice - the tone not of a lover but of a husband.

Matthew Pearl

#34. She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in
Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191

Meljean Brook

#35. Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

Helen Mirren

#36. A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#37. The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

Mother Teresa

#38. And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

Rob Sheffield

#39. Reverend Ipe realized that his daughter had by now developed a "reputation" and was unlikely to find a husband. He decided that since she couldn't have a husband there was no harm in her having an education.

Arundhati Roy

#40. 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

#41. What she had liked better still was his drowsy demeanour and slow manner of speech; he
had seemed inoffensive, the kind of man who would go about his work without causing trouble, not the least desirable of qualities in a husband.

Amitav Ghosh

#42. I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want.

Julianne Moore

#43. Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

Boyd K. Packer

#44. For say what you will of lovers there's nothing so flattering to female vanity as the praise of a husband, because it is universally considered a more difficult matter to retain affection than to win it.

Hannah Crafts

#45. A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

Bilal Philips

#46. Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Jack Kingston

#47. Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

Roger Federer

#48. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

George Savile

#49. My mother used to say that a son is a son until he gets married - then he's a husband - but a daughter is a daughter for life.

Sylvia Day

#50. Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.

Phyllis Diller

#51. There may be a hundred reasons that a husband is not fulfilling his role as the head of the home. But a wife who rebels against her head is only introducing a new element of spiritual sickness and dysfunction into the family.

Tony Evans

#52. Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Lauren Bacall

#53. I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

Victoria Woodhull

#54. I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

Tom Cruise

#55. Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#56. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.

Loretta Chase

#57. idea of a husband who could be killed any moment made

J. Carson Black

#58. He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.

Eudora Welty

#59. [Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

Mary Kingsley

#60. In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

Ethel Waters

#61. The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Honore De Balzac

#62. Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.

Emily Giffin

#63. Take no heed of good looks , but rather of callused hand.
Old Maori saying: Choose a husband for his work, not his appearance.

Toni Polancy

#64. If yer after a husband, forget it, he says. I seen what you did to the last one.

Moira Young

#65. It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

Dorothy Stratten

#66. A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore De Balzac

#67. I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Tyler Perry

#68. Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#69. Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

Esther Williams

#70. A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.

Kurt Vonnegut

#71. A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!

Dada Bhagwan

#72. A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Anthony Trollope

#73. I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Christopher Hampton

#74. 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

#75. I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.

George Eliot

#76. Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Chanakya

#77. Native nations were often matrilineal: that is, clan identity passed through the mother, and a husband joined a wife's household, not vice versa. Matrilineal does not mean matriarchal, which, like patriarchal, assumes that some group has to dominate - a failure of the imagination.

Gloria Steinem

#78. Humphrey finds everybody charming I never can get him to abuse Casaubon. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself.

George Eliot

#79. The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted them at first.

Debasish Mridha

#80. The second time around, I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Kevin Hart

#81. But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Herbie Hancock

#82. She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
Till I can find occasion of revenge.

William Shakespeare

#83. I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

Lynsey Addario

#84. I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Mark Wahlberg

#85. The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

Johnny Carson

#86. I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

Cameron Diaz

#87. But never try to answer for what is between a husband and his wife, or a lover and his mistress. There is always one little corner which remains hidden from all the world, and is known only to the two of them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#88. Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.

Stephanie McMahon

#89. The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

Shirley Jackson

#90. I want a husband to warm my bed, and my bed alone.

Sarah J. Maas

#91. Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.

Jodi Thomas

#92. She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband.

Helen Smith

#93. My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

Simon Sinek

#94. I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Julian Fellowes

#95. And there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.

Nelson DeMille

#96. I have a husband, and babysitters; I find it hard. I find it amazing how single moms do it.

Melissa Peterman

#97. She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says Guess who!

P.G. Wodehouse

#98. It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.

Honore De Balzac

#99. A husband comes home from satsang and greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. His wife is surprised and asks, 'Did the Swami ji preach about being romantic today?' Her husband replies, 'No, he said we must carry our burdens and sorrows with a smile.

Khushwant Singh

#100. I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

Anita Brookner