#husbands

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#hoard #husbands #many #men #their

I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#marriage-husbands #marriage

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

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

— Arnold Bennett

#being #cannot #entire #fail #give

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#bed #brave #desire #generous #husbands

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

#creature #flesh #husbands #lover #made

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

— Ali MacGraw

#fashion #getting #husbands #i #know

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. ↗

— Jane Austen

#husbands #marriage #parents #proposals #marriage

Daughter! Get you an honest man for a husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the honor and moral character of the man more than all other circumstances. Think of no other greatness but that of the soul, no other riches but those of the heart. An honest, sensible, humane man, above all the littleness of vanity and extravagances of imagination, laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity clearly within his means and free from debts and obligations, is really the most respectable man in society, makes himself and all about him most happy. ↗

— John Adams

#dating-advice #husbands #marriage #relationships #dating

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death! A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany ↗

— Amy Hill Hearth

#delany-sisters #having-our-say #husbands #death