Top 110 Husbands Quotes

I’m Jewish, I can say it. We’re storytellers. We were the moneylenders… Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

I don’t do husbands. I don’t do children.

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

In my family, I’ve seen women being devoted to their husbands. I grew up watching that. To me, it is a very natural thing.

Why don’t we actually fight for a woman‘s right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes – their fathers, husbands, brothers – to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people‘s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

If there is anyone a married woman would want around their husbands, it would be me. I don’t want any married man, never have, never will.

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where‘s that going to get ’em? Besides divorce court?

Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

I can’t be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom – one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

Many women feel they can’t afford their lives; their husbands can’t afford to be paying for the family bills. Hillary Clinton is guilty of being part of the establishment that created that problem.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn’t leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband’s name. And I’m not vilifying that behavior! But that’s a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands’ identities.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing – that I was not a very passionate woman.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

I’d had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn’t handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.

Well the beauty of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life‘ is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men – the sons, the fathers, the husbands – because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

All poets‘ wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

My mother‘s mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, ‘Hmm, I can do that.’ But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged – by their husbands, bosses and the government – to take long maternity leaves.

The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when they are breadwinners.

As a woman who experienced infidelity firsthand, I will always advise my girlfriends to only trust their husbands 95 percent and leave 5 percent for human error.

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it’s just so sick on so many levels.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

My mother buried three husbands – and two of them were only napping.

In our family, the men have always stood at the head, true patriarchs that take the lead, teach, and live their lives as examples… Women have a significant role as helpers to our husbands and co-counsels in the parental equation.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

I’m still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

Husbands and fathers, get on your knees before God and accept your place as head of your household. You are the prophet from God to your family. This is not a lightweight thing; it takes a commitment on your part to fulfill your responsibilities. Get yourself straight before God, then see to your children.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

That’s one of the unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement – that, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be feminine, they would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I’m always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

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.

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.

I can’t think of anything I regret. Everything I’ve done, I’ve enjoyed doing. I’ve had five husbands, four children. I’ve done it all, but mainly I’ve enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

I love ‘Husbands and Wives,’ Woody Allen‘s movie. It’s like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Candidates‘ wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands’ appearances.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she‘d had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah‘s arrival to her village.

There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their husbands and scold. But female comedy characters are changing for the better.

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

We women feel we are here to serve. That’s the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don’t own us, but too often we let them.

My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired ‘A Time to Remember‘ to mobilize a movement for gun control.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, ‘Don’t leave! I’m gonna change!’ Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

I read so much about men who aren’t what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

Perhaps I’m just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

In many countries, laws still work to women’s disadvantage – for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands’ permission to register a business, own property, or work.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

Husbands, recognize your wife’s intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don’t be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

Playing around with other people’s husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.

Our children are not going to be just ‘our children’ – they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the ’70s of women who were mayors who couldn’t get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we’re crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we’re fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we’re going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don’t give equal rights to women, you can’t progress.

Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’ is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don’t want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don’t want to hurt people.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn’t want to be the woman I was raised to be – a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren’t ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don’t compel them to see films with female casts.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

It’s axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it’s axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a ‘khali’ is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.