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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON NUSBANDS
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968, American actress)
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De Beauvoir (1908-1986, French novelist, essayist)
You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British novelist)
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 (1892-1973, American novelist)
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins (1933-, British-born American actress)
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
A good husband makes a good wife.
John Florio (c.1553-1625, British author, translator)
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1918-, Hungarian-born American actress)
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Christopher Hampton (1946-, British playwright)
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.
William Hogarth (1697-1764, British painter, engraver)
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving (1783-1859, American author)
I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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?
John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Shirley MacLaine (1934-, American actress)
An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-, Colombian writer)
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
Molly McGee
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
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 (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
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.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971, American humorous poet)
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
A good husband is healthy and absent.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729, British dramatist, essayist, editor)
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
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.
Rose Pastor Stokes
From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.
Roger Vadim (1928-, French film director)
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!
Queen Victoria (1819-1901, British queen)
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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