Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Collins

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Joan Collins

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Logan Pearsall Smith

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

Lois Lowry

She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

Madeleine L'Engle

My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

Madeleine L'Engle

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

Louisa May Alcott

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Louisa May Alcott

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

John George Nicolay

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

John Gay

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

John Gay

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

Lisa Kleypas

It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything.” - Amelia to Poppy

Linda Fiorentino

Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband.

Linda Evans

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Linda Evans

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

Leo Tolstoy

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Leo Tolstoy

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

Leelee Sobieski

I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.

Leeza Gibbons

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Lauren Lee Smith

My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.

Leon Uris

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

Jodi Kantor

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

Jodi Benson

For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there werent really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.

Emily Mortimer

I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

Elizabeth Gilbert

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

Elizabeth Gilbert

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

Judith McNaught

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

Judith Martin

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

Katherine Boo

I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

Katherine Dunham

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.