Husband Quotes - Page 2

• A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

  E. W. Howe

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

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• No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

  Elsa Einstein

  Funny, Women, Theory

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• Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Trust, Father Son

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

  Cher

  Love, Fire, Funny Wedding Advice

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• The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

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• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

  Chanakya

  Sister, Mother, Morning

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• Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Quoted in Newsweek, 28 Mar. 1960

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• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Funny, Anniversary

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• A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

  George Farquhar

  Wife, Good Husband, Good Wife

  Colley Cibber, Sir Richard Steele, George Farquhar, sir John Vanbrugh, William Congreve (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. INCONSTANT. By Mr. Farzuhar ; LOVE FOR LOVE. By Mr. Congreve ; LOVE MAKES A MAN. By C. Cibber, Esq. ; LYING LOVER. By Sir Rich. Steele ; PROVOKED WIFE. By Sir John Vanbrugh. VOL. V.”, p.22

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• I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

  Anton Chekhov

  Moon, Sky, Giving

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

  Ali MacGraw

  Girl, Fashion, Way

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• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

  George Eliot

  Women, Home, Stronger

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

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• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Sarcasm

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Marriage, Thinking

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Gun, Power, Hands

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Devil, Acting, Actresses

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• How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Marriage, Art, Memorable

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• The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Funny, Anniversary, Flower

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• My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Life, Wedding

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• I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

  Henny Youngman

  Anniversary, Inspiration, Wife

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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• A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Marriage, Wife

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail.
  They cannot give their entire attention to it.

  Arnold Bennett

  Jobs, Giving, Attention

  The Title (1918) act 1

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