Quotes with husband

Quotes 81 till 100 of 118.

  • Mother Teresa Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • James Thurber Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Pearl S. Buck 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 S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Buchi Emecheta The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • August Strindberg The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Voltaire The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Busy Philipps The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Gay Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Betty Shabazz Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Wealth - Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bonnie Hunt What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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