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Nay, for my part I always despised MrTattle of all things; nothing but his being my husband could have made me like him less.
william congreve— 1695 Mrs Frail to Mrs Foresight. Love for Love, act 5, sc.11.
Thetrouble about finding a husband forone'smistress, is that no other man seems quite good enough.
William Cooper— 1950 Scenes from Provincial Life, pt.3, ch.5.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
(Newton) Booth Tarkington— 1924 Looking Forward And Others,'The Hopeful Pessimist'.
Fy! madam, do you think me so ill bred as to love a husband?
william wycherley— 1671Love in aWood, act 3, sc.4.
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— Quoted in "Tony Abbott under fire" on abc.net.au, July 22, 2002.
In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.
susannah constantine— As quoted in "Retail therapists" by Fiona Neill in The Times (14 July 2007)
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— In an article written for The Guardian, Why I'm not standing for Labour leader – this time, 28 May, 2010.
You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that, female jobs such as feeding husband and children be considered as valuable as male jobs.
janusz korwin-mikke— source: blog, 29 September 2008
Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
d. h. lawrence— Sons and Lovers - Edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992
I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about ... the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure. I came home and I asked my husband, I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.'
dana perino— NPR, December 8, 2007 [3]
The stoic husband was the glorious thing.The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,And lov'd his country.
Alexander Pope— Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).
Well, if our author in the wife offendsHe has a husband that will make amends;He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,And sure such kind good creatures may be living.
Alexander Pope— Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.
Andy Warhol— Ch. 7: Time
The silvery tree opens to an empty sky maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
anna akhmatova— Variant translations:The willow in the empty sky
spread her transparent fan
perhaps it were better
that I not be
your wife."Memory of the Sun" (alternate translation by Paula Goodman)
[My husband Emilio] found the last remaining virgin in the '70s -- and that was me.
gloria estefan— Good Morning America radio interview (October 26, 2006)
When I wrote "Words Get in the Way" my husband and I had just had a horrendous argument . . . . [After it was an international hit] My husband said, "We have to have more arguments."
gloria estefan— Gayle King XM satellite radio program (October 23, 2006)
To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the River on the 6 July 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time.
Kenneth Grahame— Epitaph, written by his cousin, Anthony Hope.
I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!
harriet harman— Evening Standard, Mon 31 Oct 2011, p16
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
George Bernard Shaw— The Bishop.
A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Notes.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband . And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
— Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:4 (as quoted in Catholic Bible Douay-Rehims)
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met. Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.
— David A. Bednar, in Lesson 159: The Family: A Proclamation to the World
The wife hath not power of her own body , but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
— 1 Corinthians 7:4 (First Letter of Saint Paul to Corinthians, 7:4).
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
thomas fuller— Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), The Good Wife, Book I, Maxim I, Chapter I.
For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 232.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther— German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and figure in the Protestant Reformation
The wife hath not power of her own body , but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
— 1 Corinthians 7:4 (as quoted in Catholic Bible Douay-Rehims)
That he heard the Prophet saying, "It is not permissible for a man to be alone with a woman, and no lady should travel except with a Muhram (i.e. her husband or a person whom she cannot marry in any case for ever; e.g. her father, brother, etc.)." Then a man got up and said, "O Allah's Apostle! I have enlisted in the army for such-and-such Ghazwa and my wife is proceeding for Hajj." Allah's Apostle said, "Go, and perform the Hajj with your wife."
— Narrated Ibn Abbas Volume 4, Book 52, Number 250
The lover in the husband may be lost.
— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady, Stanza 13.
