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The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money. - Joey Adams A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife. - Honore de Balzac I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi. - Anita Brookner And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away." - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 141) But O ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 22) A good husband makes a good wife at any time. - George Farquhar American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. - Elinor Glyn All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. - Oliver Goldsmith The lower in the husband may be lost. - Lord George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ("The Good Lord Lyttelton"), Advice to a Lady (l. 112) Marry! no, faith; husbands are like lots in The lottery, you may draw forty blanks Before you find one that has any prize In him; a husband generally is a Careless domineering thing, that grows like Coral; which as long as it is under water Is soft and tender; but as soon As it has got its branch above the waves Is presently hard, stiff, not to be bow'd. - John Marston To all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. - Philip Massinger Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. - Henry Louis Mencken God is thy law, thou mine. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 637) The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 195) And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 195) With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 290) A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true, And lov'd his country. - Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living. - Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore To hold you in perpetual amity, To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts With an unslipping knot, take Antony Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men; Whose virtue and whose general graces speak That which none else can utter. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Agrippa at II, ii) Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Cordelia at I, i) I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sickness, for it is my office, And will have no attorney but myself; And therefore let me have him home with me. - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at V, i) If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii) Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance; commits his body To painful labor both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou li'st warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience-- Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord? - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Kate at V, ii) Know then, As women owe a duty--so do men. Men must be like the branch and bark to trees, Which doth defend them from tempestuous rage;-- Clothe them in winter, tender them in age, Or as ewes' love unto their eanlings lives; Such should be husbands' custom to their wives. If it appears to them they've stray'd amiss, They only must rebuke them with a kiss; Or cluck them as hens' chickens, with kind call, Cover them under their wing, and pardon all. - Bishop John Wilkins
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