Quotes and Sayings about Husbands
"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
(Related: Music, Friend, Husbands, Study, Talk, Wives)
"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Husbands, Opposition, Will, Wives)
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Husbands, Majority, Play, Trying)
"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
- Ann Bancroft
(Related: Husbands, Old)
"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
(Related: HusbAttention, Being, Husbands, Job)
"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."
- George Byron
(Related: Daughters, Husbands, Wives)
"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
(Related: People, Children, Husbands, Parents, Wives)
"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
(Related: Marriage, Women, Husbands, Talk, Woman)
"Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Women, Wife, Bed, Desire, Husbands, Want)
"I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands."
- Cher
(Related: Friends, Husbands)
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended."
- Cher
(Related: Husbands)
"The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives."
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Related: Excess, Faults, Husbands, Wives)
"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
(Related: Family, Time, Baby, Husbands, Now)
"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
(Related: Home, HusbSuccessful, Children, Want)
"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."
- Thomas Dekker
(Related: Husbands, Wives)
"Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason."
- Indra Devi
(Related: Home, Women, Husbands, Reason)
"Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door."
- Indra Devi
(Related: Husbands, News)
"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Success, Women, Husbands, Road)
"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
- James Dobson
(Related: Leadership, Women, Husbands, Observation, Waiting)
"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Husbands)
"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
- George Eliot
(Related: Home, Women, Bachelors, Husbands)
"I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands."
- Linda Evans
(Related: Family, Money, Husbands, Past)
"Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives."
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
(Related: Men, Future, Husbands, Wives)
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Related: Husbands)
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Related: Husbands)
"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
(Related: Marriage, Life, End, Husbands)
"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Women, Fidelity, Husbands)
"American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced."
- Elinor Glyn
(Related: American, Husbands, Wives, World)
"Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends."
- Holly Hunter
(Related: Family, Life, Daughters, Friends, Husbands, Lovers, Mothers, Teenage, Years)
"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
(Related: Love, Father, Mother, Brothers, Enemies, Husbands, May, Sisters, Wives)
"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Husbands)
"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Blame, Guilt, Husbands, Unhappiness)
"A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood."
- Amy Levy
(Related: Blood, Husbands, May)
"But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it."
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
(Related: Women, Wife, Ladies, Heroes, Husbands, May, Strangers, World)
"You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work."
- Ali MacGraw
(Related: Business, Work, Fashion, Girls, Husbands)
"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."
- Shirley MacLaine
(Related: Husbands, Old)
"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Soul, Husbands)
"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Husbands)
"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Women, Husbands)
"I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands."
- Gretchen Mol
(Related: God, History, Religion, Husbands, Relationships, Voice)
"Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts."
- Moliere
(Related: Change, Husbands, Law, Woman)
"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Husbands, Lovers, Wives)
"I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Women, Babies, Husbands, Want)
"Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care."
- Augustus Y. Napier
(Related: Men, Women, Family, Control, Financial, Care, Husbands, Responsibility, Wives)
"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
(Related: Death, Life, Husbands, Reality, Strangers, Wives)
"Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Wife, Heart, Husbands)
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
- Pat Robertson
(Related: Women, Capitalism, Children, Feminism, Husbands, Practice, Witchcraft)
"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
- Pat Robertson
(Related: Women, Capitalism, Children, Feminism, Husbands, Practice, Witchcraft)
"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
- Rita Rudner
(Related: Mother, Husbands)
"My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping."
- Rita Rudner
(Related: Husbands, Woman)
"Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention."
- Jessica Savitch
(Related: Women, Attention, Husbands, Television, Want)
"All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives."
- Delmore Schwartz
(Related: Husbands, Poets, Wives)
"Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made."
- Pepper Schwartz
(Related: Women, Decision, Discipline, Baby, Children, Husbands, May, Rank, Service, Will)
"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Husbands, Nothing, Want)
"I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men."
- Janet Street-Porter
(Related: Love, Men, End, Husbands)
"You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work."
- Lee Trevino
(Related: Money, Work, Husbands)
"Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands."
- Brenda Ueland
(Related: Husbands)
"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
- Mary Wesley
(Related: Men, Women, People, Courage, Battle, Children, Fact, Husbands, Illness)
"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
(Related: Time, Women, Care, Dogs, Husbands, Kids)
"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
(Related: Age, Danger, Husbands, Kings, May, Right)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Fathers, Husbands, Neglect, Will, Wives)