Husband Quotes - Page 34

• Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Beauty, Love Is, Wife

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• A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Marriage, Women, Criticism

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• To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Father, Long

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• If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

  I. L. Peretz

  Garden, Eden, Wife

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• Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Real, Gun, Drunk

  James Tiptree Jr.'s letter, quoted in Julie Phillips "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon", 2006.

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• We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

  James Farley

  Boys, Competition, Corporations

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• A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Heart, Lovers, Reason

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• Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Party, Salad, Taste

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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• I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

  Crystal Eastman

  Marriage, Children, Distance

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

  Carol Grace

  Marriage, Men, People

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• ... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for appendages and dead weights to husbands--of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves--is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Marriage, Responsibility, Evil

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• If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Crazy, Bird, Dresses

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• I 'm grateful for the success that( husband) Bill and I have had, we both come from hard-working families. We both have worked very hard.

  Hillary Clinton

  Success, Grateful, Hard Work

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• we do not explain my husband's insane abuse
  and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
  or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
  Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

  Anne Sexton

  Family, Father, Love Is

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.

  Michael Ian Black

  Dad, Ice Cream, World

  "The Best-Laid Plans of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

  Deborah Copaken

  Party, Three, Joints

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• Girls learn how to relate to men from the way their fathers love them. And if their fathers really love them and want the very best for them, then they've seen that kind of good behavior that they'd want in a husband.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Father, Men

  "Laura Bush's New Goal". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 2, 2007.

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• Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider

  Sandra Scarr

  War, Work, Women

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• In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

  J. B. Priestley

  Block, Men, Boards

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• Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.

  Blake Lively

  Stars, Father, War

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  Eva Figes

  Fashion, Strong, Queens

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• Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

  Stefan Zweig

  Dark, Giving, Secret

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Jobs, Adventure, Thinking

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Children, Loss, Wife

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