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In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember 3 the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.
Being a husband isawhole-timejob.That iswhysomany husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? isit well with the child? And sheanswered,It is well.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife.
Ah! gentle dames! it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!
Nay, for my part I always despised MrTattle of all things; nothing but his being my husband could have made me like him less.
Thetrouble about finding a husband forone'smistress, is that no other man seems quite good enough.
I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to'em.
Be courtly ay in clething and costlyarrayit, That hurtis yow nought worth a hen; yowr husband pays for all.
Awoman, let her be asgood as shemay, hasgot to put up with the life her husband makes for her.
I think that people will concede that, on this of all days, I should begin my speech with the words,'My husband and I'.
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.
Nothing else that a wife may suffer, equals this: if she loses her husband, she loses her life.
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
Every night, whisper 'Peace' in your husband's ear.
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives.There isno power game.The man isnot 'taking' and the woman is not 'giving'. No one is attempting to cuckolda husband orhumiliateawife.No oneistrying to proveanythingorget anythingoutofanyone.Thezipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.
If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,if you did not come inonthewife'sside,if youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,look about you Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.
Un mari porte un masque avec le monde, et une grimace avec sa femme. A husbandwears a mask intheworld and a smirk withhis wife.
For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Le divorce a ordinairement une grande utilite politique;
Dear husband! I take shame to myself that my purpose was less firm, that my heart lingered so far behind yours in preparing for this great epoch in our lives; that like Lot's wife, I still turned and looked back, and clung with all my strength to the land I was leaving. It was not the hardships of an emigrant's life I dreaded. I could bear mere physical privations philosophically enough; it was the loss of society in which I had moved, the want of congenial minds, of persons engaged in congenial pursuits, that made me so reluctant to respond to my husband's call.
A woman is stripped of everything by them [saloons]. Her husband is torn from her; she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue; and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these dens of robbery and murder. Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things!
The kind of a man that men likenot womenis the kind of man that makes the best husband.
What are we learning Frenchor thepianofor,Iwould like to know, if it is not to be sold to a man some day We have to cringe, and manoeuvre, and grimace for a husbanda husband who may be deaf orhavea hump if he is richa husband that may attack you in delirium tremens to-day if he makes a devout act of contrition for it to-morrow.
I cast only one votefor Jack. It is a rare thing to be able to vote for one's husband for President and I didn't want to dilute it by voting for anyone else.
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig- tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poetI saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marvelling sweetly on her ills.
Never trust a husband too far, or a bachelor too near.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate as an old mare might droop across a fence to the dull pastures of her ignorance. Her husband held her upright while he prayed to God who is all-forgiving to send down some angel somewhere who might land perhaps in his foreign wings among the gradual crops. She munched, half dead, blindly searching the spoon.
If youcannot have yourdear husband fora comfort and a delight, for a breadwinner and a crosspatch, for a sofa, chair or a hot-water bottle, one can use him as a Cross to be Borne.
I am, dear Prue, a little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband,
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Fy! madam, do you think me so ill bred as to love a husband?
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