Husband famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.
-- A.M. Homes -
I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. One day our son’s wife will be thankful that her husband will have had you for a role model. She’ll be lucky because of you. Because you will have raised our son to be the man that you are. He’ll love her completely because he’ll know how.
-- Abbi Glines -
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
-- Abigail Adams -
Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
-- Ada Leverson -
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
-- Adam Hamilton -
I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.
-- Adam Savage -
Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator – perhaps even a god – as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer. Few fictional heroes have ever done as much as Caius Julius Caesar.
-- Adrian Goldsworthy -
I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.
-- Akshay Kumar -
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
-- Al Capp -
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
-- Alan Bennett -
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
-- Alan Bradley -
Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.
-- Alana Stewart -
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.
-- Alex Kingston -
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
-- Alexander Pope -
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
-- Alexander Pope -
I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.
-- Alexander Spotswood -
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.
-- Ali Landry -
I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.
-- Ali Larter -
My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.
-- Ali MacGraw -
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 -
I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.
-- Alice Hoffman -
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
-- Alice James -
Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.
-- Alice Steinbach -
I have a husband and four rescue dogs. There is no option of no dogs on the bed. This is how I know my husband will be a good father someday. The pit bull sleeps on top of my husband. On top of him! He has to remove her sometimes because she snores too loudly into his ear and he can't take it. But he moves her in such a cute, gentle way, and he doesn't care about fur on the bed.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
My DVR says that I watch a lot of TV my husband likes.
-- Alison Sweeney -
My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
-- Alison Sweeney -
My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.
-- Alison Sweeney -
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
-- Allison Pearson -
I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.
-- Alma Powell -
My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.
-- Amanda Holden -
I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.
-- Amanda Peet -
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
-- Amy Bloom -
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.
-- Amy Chua -
My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood
-- Amy Levy -
My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.
-- Amy Winehouse -
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
-- Amy Yasbeck -
The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.
-- Ana Ortiz -
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 -
I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.
-- Andre Ward -
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
-- Andrea Mitchell -
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
-- Andrei Gromyko -
You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.
-- Andrew Schneider -
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.
-- Andrew Schneider -
Don't waste your singleness. I think we spend a lot of time griping about how we're single, and we spend a lot of time and energy being angry about that when we could be spending that time to really serve other people and use the free time we do have to do so much more for the Kingdom of God. So don't waste that time. Use it. You only get so much time and then you'll most likely get married and have kids and a husband and not have as much free time. So enjoy it and use it to serve other people.
-- Andy Mineo -
When I got married, I was all in love, but then came life intruding in, and sometimes it's difficult ... I would look at my husband and ask, 'did we do it too quickly?' ... But my husband was strong in his resolve. He kept reminding me that people go through this, and that we were going to be ok.
-- Angela Bassett -
Maybe if you're younger you have more energy - but that's a big maybe. Because at this stage of life, I have more patience, understanding, wisdom, resources - and a husband. I didn't get him until I was 39. But I got a good one.
-- Angela Bassett -
I live a normal life, I take care of our baby, I cook, and I look forward to the weekend so I can spend some time with my husband. It's the kind of change we all secretly dream of, but which isn't always easy to deal with.
-- Angela Lindvall -
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
-- Anita Brookner -
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
-- Anita Diament -
A married woman, the safest place for any woman to be is at home with her husband.
-- Ann Coulter -
The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.
-- Ann Druyan -
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.
-- Ann Hood -
Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.
-- Ann Romney -
If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.
-- Anna Benson -
I find running life quite hard and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.
-- Anna Chancellor -
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
-- Anna Faris -
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems
-- Anna Garlin Spencer -
A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.
-- Anna Held -
I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people? But it's really not. When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.
-- Anna Paquin -
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.
-- Anne Bancroft -
DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
-- Anne Carson -
There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
-- Anne Enright -
They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.
-- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -
Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
-- Anne Lamott -
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
-- Anne Sexton -
I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.
-- Anne Sinclair -
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I have to be a father first and a husband first.
-- Antonio Davis -
I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.
-- Arabella Weir -
I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.
-- Ari Emanuel -
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
-- Arianna Huffington -
Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.
-- Aristophanes -
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
-- Aristophanes -
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
-- Aristotle -
As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.
-- Aristotle -
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
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 -
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee
