Husband quotes
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"If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done."
"The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say."
"It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain"
"I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England."
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
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"I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children."
"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."
"Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
"I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then."
"Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?"
"When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested."
"My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim."
"I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman."
"As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support."
"Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men."
"When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'"
"A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost"
"A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself."
"The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife."
"Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me."
"A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood."
"Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply."
"My life really began when I married my husband."
"Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!"
