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.
—Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022) American Social Critic, Essayist
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 (b.1933) English Actress
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
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 (1879–1933) American Socialist, Activist
An early-rising man… a good spouse but a bad husband.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927–2014) Colombian Novelist, Short-Story Writer
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
—Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
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) English Painter, Engraver
A good husband is healthy and absent.
—Japanese Proverb
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
—English Proverb
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 (1940–80) British Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Activist
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can not face each other, yet still they stay together.
—Hemant Joshi (b.1954) Indian Pediatrician, Activist
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
—Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) French Philosopher, Writer, Feminist
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 Royal
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
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 Journalist, Literary Critic
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet
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 (1812–70) English 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, Human Rights Activist
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
A good husband makes a good wife.
—John Florio (1553–1625) British Translator, Italian Scholar, Tutor
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 (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse
In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
—Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
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 (1902–68) American Actress
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