Top 100 Quotes About Husbands Wives
#1. What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
Allen Ginsberg
#2. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it.
Cecelia Ahern
#3. [A happy ending is] a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives babies, millions, appended paragraphs, and cheerful remarks.
Henry James
#4. I have taken many lives in my life. Many children, perhaps husbands, wives, parents. Perhaps it is only just that this same violation was inflicted upon me. Perhaps it is just that one who lives a life of war becomes a refugee from it.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#5. Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.
James C. Dobson
#6. 28So husbands ought also to jlove their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
Anonymous
#8. The church must not teach the submission of wives apart from the sacrificial love and servanthood required of husbands.
Gary L. Thomas
#9. the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
Karl Taro Greenfeld
#10. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
#11. 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
#12. Wives were not supposed to hate their husbands. It was not in the proper order of things.
Kathy Hepinstall
#13. Anna returned her gaze to the bankers' wives, who huddled into the company of one another. The women were young. Their husbands wore the jewellery of their beauty like elegant wristwatches.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#14. I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and praise 'em as if they wanted to sell 'em.
George Eliot
#15. Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#16. Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers.
Melina Marchetta
#17. Hey, I'm just teasing. Isn't that what husbands who are hopelessly in love with their wives do?
E.L. James
#18. Had the love been perennial, there won't have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time.
Girdhar Joshi
#19. Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes.
John McPhee
#20. 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
#21. As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives. They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious...How different Sibyl was! She lived her finest tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Comfort for herself. Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what
Zora Neale Hurston
#23. Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.
Shulamith Firestone
#24. 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
#25. Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
Louisa May Alcott
#26. That this, right here, right now, is our life. It is not our parents' or our children's, not our husbands' or our wives'. It is not made more or less valuable by our job or how much we have in the bank. Our life is ours. It is the only one we will ever have. And we should love it.
Rob Lowe
#27. How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
Hortense Odlum
#28. Sick people grew to resent well people, and sometimes that was true of husbands and wives, or even of mothers and their children. Both
Alice Munro
#29. 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
#30. In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.
Dave Willis
#34. Bickering based on in-laws' actions and behaviour were not uncommon between husbands and wives. Arguments of such nature usually erected a temporary wall between couples that mended with the passage of time. However, such wrangling left Neha with a sense of impending doom.
Neetha Joseph
#35. 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
#36. Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.
Indro Montanelli
#37. The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery ... peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.
Jamake Highwater
#38. The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
John McAfee
#39. 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 Calderone
#40. None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
Lauren DeStefano
#41. A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.
Brigham Young
#42. I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."
Tyler Perry
#43. Yes... even husbands and wives are strangers.
Hedone
#44. Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.
Billy Graham
#45. We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.
Owen Jones
#46. Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom.
Rajneesh
#47. I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Benjamin Franklin
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Popularity
The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
H.L. Mencken
#52. He admonished husbands and wives to love each other as Christ loved the church. Love begets love, and when you reward each other you honor God.
Suzetta Perkins
#53. 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
#54. ...the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.
Terrence Real
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.
Tawni O'Dell
#58. Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen
#59. I can say in all candor that husbands need wives, and if their wives are simply the "mothers of their children", they're likely to look elsewhere for someone to fill the wife void.
Richard E. Greenberg
#60. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.
Steven Erikson
#61. 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
#62. Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?
Louise Erdrich
#63. People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives - or their jobs. Well, if that's really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse's or partner's. There is a plan for everyone.
Echo Bodine
#64. You wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the
Scott Hahn
#65. Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
Jodi Kantor
#66. Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
Plutarch
#67. Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Paul The Apostle
#68. You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives.
Philip Roth
#69. He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.
Swami Vivekananda
#70. 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
#71. Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.
Phyllis Diller
#72. When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#73. Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#74. Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
Neil Diamond
#75. Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
George Burns
#76. In the festival which concludes the period, before they go to the temple, both wives and children fall on their knees before their husbands or parents and confess everything in which they have either erred or failed in their duty, and beg pardon for it.
Thomas More
#77. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Thomas Dekker
#78. According to this hermeneutic, if we follow what the NT says about the relationships between men and women and husbands and wives, we will not be doing the will of God, for the redemptive movement in Scripture means we must go beyond Scripture to discover God's perfect will.
Benjamin Reaoch
#79. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace Stegner
#80. I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#81. I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.
Cloris Leachman
#82. The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Dorothy Dix
#83. As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.
Alexander Dumas
#84. My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
J.I. Packer
#85. 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
#86. Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.
Norhafsah Hamid
#87. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
#88. Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.
Jerry Della Femina
#89. 18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
Gary Chapman
#90. Husbands and wives are equal partners. They have different but complementary responsibilities.
Quentin L. Cook
#91. Is that what he thinks? I mean, I know it's the truth, but it shouldn't be what he thinks. Husbands should think the best of their wives, as a matter of principle.
Sophie Kinsella
#92. 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
#93. Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.
Jackie Gleason
#94. Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
Zig Ziglar
#95. When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
Emma Thompson
#96. Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?
Frances Wright
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. God designed husbands and wives to complete each other, not to compete with each other.
Jimmy Evans
#100. 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
