#husbands

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands. ↗

Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

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LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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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. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

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

— Jane Austen

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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

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