Husband Quotes - Page 27

• The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
  Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
  Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

  John Milton

  Wife, Danger, Endure

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.258

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• And to thy husband's will
  Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

  John Milton

  Thee, Submit

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.297

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• With thee goes
  Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound;
  Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

  John Milton

  Art, Thinking, Soil

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.477, BookCaps Study Guides

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• all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Every Man

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• Good husbands make good wives.

  Martha Finley

  Wife, Good Husband, Good Wife

  Martha Finley (2016). “ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…”, p.1007, e-artnow

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• I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Trying, Gothic

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.

  Marie Stopes

  Christian, Country, Government

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• The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

  Wilson Mizner

  Marriage, Sleep, Boys

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• 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

  Men, Wife, Slave

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• And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Loneliness, Women

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• I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills.

  Fanny Brice

  Jobs, Home, Night

  "The Fabulous Fanny : The Story of Fanny Brice". Book by Norman Katkov (p. 71), 1953.

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• a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Father, Men

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Jobs, Wife, President

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• A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Wise, Way

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• Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.

  Sara Coleridge

  Children, Heart, Wife

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.65

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• My husband says, 'God, Roseanne, I can't remember the last time we had sex.' Well, I can, and that is why we ain't doing it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Sex, Lasts, Remember

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• I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Passion, Home

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• Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Teacher, Children, Pride

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• I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

  Marie Curie

  Dream, Heaven, Together

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• the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

  Lucretia Mott

  Men, Law, Wife

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• you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

  Dolley Madison

  Wife, Shadow, May

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.

  Frank Iero

  Father, Dark, Men

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• Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Writing, Kids, Men

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Father, Men, Listening

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• [When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

  Hermione Gingold

  Matter, Opinion, Stills

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