Quotes of Husband - somelinesforyou

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

- Shirley MacLaine

“ American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. ”

- Elinor Glyn

“ 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

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

- Helen Rowland

“ Changing husbands is only changing troubles. ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Groucho Marx

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

- H. L. Mencken

“ There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ”

- Adela Rogers St. Johns

“ A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ A good husband makes a good wife. ”

- John Florio

“ 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

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

- Sir Richard Steele

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Mary Buckley

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

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

“ I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. ”

- Lauren Bacall

“ 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

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

- Adela Rogers St. Johns

“ 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

“ If women believed in their husbands, they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ 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

“ 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

“ Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde
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