“ A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. ”
- Archie Bunker- Copy
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“ It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. ”
- Russell Green- Copy
- 2K
“ I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ So bent on self-sanctifying, — That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well. ”
- Robert Williams Buchanan- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
- 3.3K
“ What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. ”
- Ann Bancroft- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it doesn't matter who it is — and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 2.6K
“ To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 865
“ Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was. ”
- Robin Green- Copy
- 817
“ When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ”
- Chi Chi Rodriguez- Copy
- 966
“ Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ”
- Zig Ziglar- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ”
- Marie Antoinette- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ”
- Adela Rogers St. Johns- Copy
- 3K
“ Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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