#husbands

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

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

— Jane Austen

#husbands #opposition #understand #vain #will

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

#being #cannot #entire #fail #give

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

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

#creature #flesh #husbands #lover #made

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#good #husbands #merely #never #proficient

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believed #deal #foolish #good #good deal

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#always #amazed #anything #babies #come

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

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#husbands #mother #napping #only #them