Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

The CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, married one of the Enron secretaries this week. It's amazing how romantic these Enron guys can be when they realize that wives can't be forced to testify against their husbands. Skilling said today she was the best secretary Enron had ever had. She could shred 950 words a minute. ... I guess they are on their honeymoon right now. That's going pretty well. Hey, he's used to screwing Enron employees.

Jay Leno

The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.

Candice Millard

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

Candace Bushnell

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

Bryan Cranston

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

Buchi Emecheta

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

James Dobson

Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.

James Dobson

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

James E. Faust

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

Paul Rusesabagina

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

Pat Conroy

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

Pamela Anderson

A husband should only be a part of your life and not your entire life.

Pamela Stephenson

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

Julia Quinn

In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

Julia Quinn

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

Patrick O'Brian

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

Patricia Arquette

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

Lillie Langtry

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

Jodi Picoult

He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

Jodi Picoult

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

Jodi Picoult

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

P. G. Wodehouse

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

Ovid

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

Paul Newman

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

Paul Newman

Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other. You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks. We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.

Marya Mannes

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

Mary J. Blige

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.