#husbands

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off

All my six husbands married me for different reasons. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#different reasons #husbands #married #me #reasons

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. ↗

— Indra Devi

#bad #bad news #calm #come #door

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ↗

— Thomas R. Dewar

#filled #husbands #pushing #road #success

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#course #focused #god #had #her

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars. You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you? ↗

— Ouida

#love #marriage #men #wives #women

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

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#complaint #emotion #energy #husbands #job

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#frankly #husbands #instead #many #priorities

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

— Laura Schlessinger

#over #power #profound #seem #their