Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Jones

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

Chuck Klosterman

You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.

Christopher Moore

Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.

Anne Bancroft

The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.

Anne Bronte

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Angie Harmon

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

Andrei Gromyko

Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.

Andrea Mitchell

[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.

Amy Bloom

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Anne Sinclair

I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.

Anne Tyler

She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow.

Anne Tyler

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

Anne Tyler

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

Angela Lansbury

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

Anne Sexton

Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.

Anne Sexton

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

Anna Held

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

Anita Brookner

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

Andre Ward

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.

Andy Murray

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.

Alicia Silverstone

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.

Alicia Keys

I've learned that one of my greatest secrets is scheduling downtime into a busy schedule. This gives me the time to have quality moments with my husband and son, who both recharge my spirit in ways I never imagined.

Alice S. Rossi

... a supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women.... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.

Alice Walker

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

Alice Hoffman

When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

Amy Yasbeck

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.

Alexander Pope

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Alexander Pope

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

Alexander Pope

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

Deborah Cox

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

Debi Mazar

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.