Husband Quotes - Page 16

• The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

  Martial

  Chloe, Shameless, Seven

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.400

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• A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Women, Stupid

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• It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Father, Home, Heart

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• That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

  Plautus

  Wife, Enemy, Given

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• A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

  Moliere

  Cures, Girlhood, Plasters

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• The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Country, Children

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• A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

  George Herbert

  Lovers

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• When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Should Have, Waiting

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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• The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

  Honore de Balzac

  Letting Go, Lying, Believe

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• A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wife, Lovers, Teach

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• 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

  Love, Odes, Fool

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• Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Nature, People

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• Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Wife, Worry

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• An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Wife, Infidelity

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• I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Wish, Doe

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• I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

  Anais Nin

  Father, Believe, Men

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Loyalty, Believe, Men

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• I'm not sure if my husband is going to be there when I actually have the baby. He said the only way he's going to be in the room when there's a delivery is if there's a pizza involved.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Way, Rooms

  Rita Rudner (2002). “Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel”, Washington Square Press

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• If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.

  Phyllis Diller

  Giving, Want, Ifs

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• How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Children, Home

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• Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Baby, Careers, Why Not

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• For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Vacation, Years

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.70, Fawcett

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• A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest.

  Erma Bombeck

  Wife, Goes On, Saws

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

  Euripides

  Mother, Heart, Wife

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