Husband Quotes - Page 12

• I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

  Annie Dillard

  Baby, Morning, Play

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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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• Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

  Frances Wright

  Father, Wife, Facts

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.39

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• It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Believe, Wife, Together

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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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 blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
  [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Women, Son

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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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• Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.

  Ann Landers

  Writing, Wife, Complaining

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Names, Two, Vienna

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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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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• For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Two, Coquette, Bears

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• A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Mistake, Wife

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Father, Lovers, Brides

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Writing, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

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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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