Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. — Samuel Richardson
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! — Samuel Richardson
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. — Helen Rowland
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. — Milton Berle
The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find. — Sayings
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. — Pearl Buck
A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali
The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. — Jay E. Adams
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. — Samuel Richardson
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. — Ouida
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. — Jackie Gleason
Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea
Bad Husband Image Quotes
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Good Husband Quotes
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. — Marco Rubio
A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah. — Bilal Philips
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. — Chanakya
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision. — Donald Trump
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. — H. L. Mencken
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. — Maureen Forrester
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. — Matthew Modine
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill. — Gail Carriger
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. — Mark Wahlberg
Great Husband Quotes
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do. — Marlee Matlin
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country. — Betty Ford
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. — Shmuley Boteach
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. — W. C. Fields
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. — Paul the Apostle
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. — Oscar Wilde
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands. — H. L. Mencken
Perfect Husband Quotes
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. — Yasmin Mogahed
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. — Oscar Wilde
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. — Oscar Wilde
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no "perfect husband." We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean? — Nick Lachey
Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths — Mark Twain
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord. — Emmeline B. Wells
I would love to have the power to be the just eternally perfect husband so my wife would always be happy; that would take me to heaven if I could figure that one out. — Robert Knepper
A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes. — Unknown
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation. — Victoria Woodhull
Bad Marriage Quotes
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. — Ellen DeGeneres
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. — W. C. Fields
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. — Rob Portman
Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage. — Michael Hyatt
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? — Robert Downey, Jr.
She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one. — Daniel Defoe
The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is. — Barbara Cartland
Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder. — Groucho Marx
Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. — Cindy Crawford
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise. — Dinah Shore
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. — Pierre Salinger
Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband. — Meryl Streep
If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it.
You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance. — Yolanda Adams
I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes. — Nora Roberts
My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack. — Ray Bergman
I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all. — Columba Bush
Husband Love Quotes
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. — Yoko Ono
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A husband loves the charm of the ladles tip until dying. — Thai Proverbs
Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men. — Dave Willis
It's not your job to like me - it's mine — Byron Katie
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. — Washington Irving
Loving Husband Quotes
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. — Stormie Omartian
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. — Mother Teresa
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! — Euripides
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men. — Janet Street-Porter
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. — Carnie Wilson
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. — Pope John Paul II
Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. — Jada Pinkett Smith
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband. — Louise Thaden
Husband And Wife Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. — Marie Antoinette
God created sex. Priests created marriage. — Voltaire
In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. — Zig Ziglar
When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs
It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife. — Hungarian Proverbs
Don’t put a finger between a husband and wife. — Italian Proverbs
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. — James Thurber
Love My Husband Quotes
I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations. — Beyonce Knowles
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. — John Lennon
I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! — Catherine Bell
Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it. — Anna Nicole Smith
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. — Anne Bradstreet
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. — Oscar Wilde
I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. — Michelle Obama
I believe life is about balance. My mom was brilliant, yet manipulative. Beautiful, but had more voices in her head than the Wu-Tang Clan. Loves her kids, killed her last husband. I say last husband because you don't get another one after that. — Christopher Titus
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children. — Ayelet Waldman
I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments. — Pat Nixon
Ideal Husband Quotes
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. — Alfred Hitchcock
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. — Booth Tarkington
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde
My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass. — Tyler Oakley
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. — Jerry Falwell
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. — Sayings
A good husband makes a good wife at any time. — George Farquhar
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer. — Sayings
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people. — Oscar Wilde
My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. — Tyler Oakley
I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs. — Melissa McCarthy
Just don’t go to a place where everything is too expensive… it’ll put your husband in a bad mood. — Diane Von Furstenberg
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God? — Maya Angelou
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go. — Sharon Stone
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. — Indra Devi
I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband. — Margaret Cavendish
If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss. — Tony Abbott
Bad husbands will make bad wives. — William Makepeace Thackeray
No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life. — Sabrina Jeffries
People are always like, Why did you and husband Carey Hart get back together? Well, we weren't done. And now we have Willow, so we'll never be done. — Pink
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time. — Iman Abdulmajid
When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. — Sheryl Sandberg
It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics. — Jane Wyman
It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That's all that really matters to me. Baseball isn't what everything is about. It's about the way I'm being a Christian husband, a Christian father, or the way I'm living my life and trying to be a Christian testimony to people. — Andy Pettitte
A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life. — John Angell James
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways. — Nina Bawden
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde
An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband. — D. H. Lawrence
Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing." — Yvette Cooper
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings? — Gilbert Sorrentino
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher. — Socrates
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad. — Trisha Yearwood
I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether. — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans
I love my husband more than I love my children. — Ayelet Waldman
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers. — Lin Yutang
As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure. — Iris Smyles
You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. — Ann Patchett
You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted. — Annia Ciezadlo
My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through‚ to be two months without going into a house‚ under the snow in trenches. And no food to get‚ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there‚ he said‚ to feed all Ireland; but bad management‚ they could not get it. — Lady Gregory
I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'. — Iyanla Vanzant
I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing. — Katey Sagal
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability. — Madeline Miller
I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies. — Yoko Ono
What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad? — Emma Goldman
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