Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Earl Wilson

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

Benjamin Franklin

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Barbara Windsor

I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.

Barbara Tuchman

While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

Anton Chekhov

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Bruce Greenwood

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

Bridgette Wilson

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

Brigham Young

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

The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God and his priesthood, I have not revealed, except to a few persons in this Church; and a few have received it from Joseph the prophet as well as myself. If a woman can find a man holding the keys of the priesthood with higher power and authority than her husband, and he is disposed to take her he can do so, otherwise she has got to remain where she is... there is no need for a bill of divorcement... To recapitulate.

Brigham Young

Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after I have set you free, you must bow down to it, and submit yourselves to the celestial law. You may go where you please, after two weeks from tomorrow; but, remember, that I will not hear any more of this whining.