Quotes about Husbands

“A good husband makes a good wife.”

“A good husband is healthy and absent.”

“The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”

“Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.”

“An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.”

“Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.”

“A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.”

“I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”

“When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.”

“The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.”

“A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”

“When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”

“You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.”

“I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.”

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

“They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.”

“Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.”

“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”

“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”

“From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.”

“A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.”

“You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.”

“Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.”

“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”

“I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?”

“His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!”

“Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.”

“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.”