Good Husband Quotes - Page 2

• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Relationship, Friends, Marriage

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

  William Wilberforce

  Husband, Father, Passion

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Husband, Firsts, Dullness

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• I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

  Francoise Sagan

  Husband, Good Love, Thinking

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• Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

  Eva Figes

  Husband, Father, Hands

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• A good wife maketh a good husband.

  John Heywood

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.88

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• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband

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• I stay with my family. I try to be a good husband and good dad. That's my real life.

  Omar Sy

  Husband, Dad, Real

  "Exclusive: Omar Sy Talks X-Men: Days Of Future Past". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. May 19, 2014.

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• In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

  David Beckham

  Football, Children, Husband

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• In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. ... Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.

  Solomon Schechter

  Husband, Father, Sacrifice

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• The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them around, and still be a perfect gentleman, a good husband, a righteous man, and one of God's most intimate friends; and that is a pretty good position for a beginning.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Daughter, Husband, Father

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• Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

  Thomas Tusser

  Agriculture, Debt, Prison

  Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.114

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• Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

  Thomas Tusser

  Agriculture, Gold, Ill

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.200

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• The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.

  Rex Hudler

  Husband, Father, Kids

  Source: www.halosheaven.com

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• The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rose, Lilies, May

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• I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

  Alan Cooper

  Husband, Father, Mean

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• That never goes over big with your wife. I will be a very good husband for a change.

  Donald Trump

  Husband, Wife, Bigs

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Struggle

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• A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Husband, Being The Best

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• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Funny, Marriage, Husband

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• A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face."

  James Keller

  Husband, People, Missing

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• My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Marriage, Husband

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