Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gay

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

My first husband was uneducated and very poor. I can't get involved with another uneducated man.

My husband is a big joker and my son-in-law thought he had somehow dummied up a ticket.

My husband has worked here since 1983 though.

My husband got a job in Marshall and we moved here.

My husband and I would love to see him do anything he wants to do.

My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.

Elizabeth Dole

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Elizabeth Edwards

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have a husband who adores me.

Elizabeth Edwards

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Elinor Glyn

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

David Nicholls

She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband and wife. If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.

Clifford Odets

There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

She had to be a very strong woman to support her husband through all those ups and downs.

She (first lady Grant) provided moral support for her husband throughout his military and then political career. They had a very loving relationship.

Britt Ekland

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Brian Littrell

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

Barbara Olson

I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.

Barbara Mertz

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody

Barbara Mertz

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Barbara Mertz

Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

Augustus

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

She told us, 'I need to tell my story after so many years, things I have not even told my husband and children. It left me with such pain.

She suggested to the husband to kill himself.

She saw the knife. She knows her husband was angry.

Diane Garnick

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Dennis Prager

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

Denene Millner

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

Denis Johnson

Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.

Deborah Smith

A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.