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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead and dull. Marriage takes all surprise and wonder away. Marriage makes you take your wife for granted, your husband for granted. What is the need to look at your wife? She will be there tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and forever. You look at people when you know you may not be able to look at them again. Marriage kills; it makes something tremendously beautiful very ugly.
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.
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