Quote: To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Author: Simone De Beauvoir 1908-1986, French Novelist, Essayist
Quote: You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. Author: Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855, British Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. Author: Mary Buckley
Quote: I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife. Author: Joan Collins 1933-, British-born American Actress
Quote: I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong. Author: Marlene Dietrich 1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor
Quote: Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: A good husband makes a good wife. Author: John Florio c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator
Quote: Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. Author: Zsa Zsa Gabor 1918-, Hungarian-born American Actress
Quote: I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. Author: Christopher Hampton 1946-, British Playwright
Quote: You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband. Author: William Hogarth 1697-1764, British Painter, Engraver
Quote: Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author
Quote: I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget. Author: Adela Rogers St. Johns
Quote: I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more? Author: John Lennon 1940-1980, British Rock Musician
Quote: The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. Author: Shirley Maclaine 1934-, American Actress
Quote: An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband. Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928-, Colombian Writer
Quote: When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. Author: Molly Mcgee
Quote: Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: 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. Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: A good husband is healthy and absent. Author: Japanese Proverb Sayings of Japanese Origin
Quote: A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband. Author: Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor
Quote: In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry. Author: Rose Pastor Stokes
Quote: From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill. Author: Roger Vadim 1928-, French Film Director
Quote: His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy! Author: Queen Victoria 1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain
Quote: The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit