Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debra Messing

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

Elbert Hubbard

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

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.

Alexandre Dumas

His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

Alexandra Paul

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Will Allison

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

Debi Mazar

We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

James Keller

A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

As the husband is, the wife is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

Ali Landry

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 Larter

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

Ali MacGraw

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.

Adolf Hitler

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.

Alexander Theroux

The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

Abigail Adams

Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Agatha Christie

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Agatha Christie

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

Ada Leverson

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.

Daphne Oz

More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.

Daphne Oz

I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.

Daphne Oz

I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.

Clifford Odets

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

Conan O'Brien

First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a central theme in her campaign. Yeah, for example, today she pointed out that her husband makes $300 million a year. She has to get by on $200 million a year, and that's not fair.

Conan O'Brien

In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.

E. W. Howe

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

E. W. Howe

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Colin Mochrie

Wives live longer than husbands because they're not married to women.