HUSBANDS

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
John Lennon

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverbs

Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
Marlene Dietrich

A good husband is healthy and absent.
Japanese Proverbs

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
Queen Victoria

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
Charles Dickens

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
Molly Mcgee

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Ogden Nash

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
Tallulah Bankhead

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde

Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Oscar Wilde

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Charlotte Bronte

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.
Roger Vadim

An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
William Hogarth

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
Adela Rogers St. Johns