Husbands Quotes

• When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • God
  • Give
  • Bodies

• Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

  

  Euripides
  • Violence
  • Desert
  • Husbands

• Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Think
  • Married
  • Husbands

• They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.

  

  Anne Finch
  • Lovers
  • Husbands
  • Err

• In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Sin
  • Breath
  • Caution

• In other words, more than seventy per cent of American divorces are granted because husbands and wives can not adapt themselves to each other in the matter of how they shall spend their LEISURE hours.

  

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict
  • Matter
  • Adapt
  • Divorces

• A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Fire
  • Husbands
  • Unattended

• When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

  

  Deepa Mehta
  • Emotional
  • Background
  • Exposed

• There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • People
  • Home
  • Husbands

• Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.

  

  Bettina Arndt
  • Marriage
  • Husbands
  • Psyche

• My experience has been that wives know their husbands better than husbands know themselves.

  

  Aubrey Malphurs
  • Know
  • Husbands
  • Wives

• The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Majority
  • Husbands
  • Identities

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

  

  Adela Rogers St. Johns
  • Difference
  • Keep
  • Husbands

• You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

  

  George Eliot
  • Husbands
  • Young Man

• I don’t know that doom is a very nice word. It does suggest, I think, shuddering and cold sweat. There was none of that, though, about Coco’s welcome to it when it opened my front door and walked in, nor can it be fairly said that there was any of it about mine. True I had a feeling, unusual so soon after breakfast, that I was in the hands of God, but otherwise I wasn’t aware of any particular discomfort. Nor did I remember, till later, that the only other time in my life I had had this feeling was when I was dressing to go to the party in Italy at which I met my first husband. It is a sinking feeling. Perhaps husbands have never altogether agreed with me.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • I Remember
  • Sweat
  • Doom

• Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Women
  • Diet
  • Husbands

• To the distinguished female author’s left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Author
  • Mask
  • Boredom

• I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Read
  • Conversation
  • Minds

• Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

  

  Moliere
  • Law
  • Change
  • Husbands

• I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • My Life
  • Catch
  • Husbands

• Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Children
  • Husbands
  • Released

• A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Soul
  • Husbands
  • Wives

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