#husbands

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#hoard #husbands #many #men #their

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#humor #husbands #intelligence #intelligent #marriage

When I focus on the way "men" or "husbands" generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I find myself feeling angry or annoyed with Jamie for things he hasn't even done. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#marriage #experience

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!!! ↗

— Caroline Corr

#children #home #husband #husbands #i

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contested #danger #divine #enlightened #hoped

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. ↗

— Jane Austen

#husbands #opposition #understand #vain #will

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. ↗