Quotes About Husbands

I always think about the tie between emotions and the body. Fierce joy attacks yang; fierce anger damages yin. If I were to write a book, I'd want to include Liver-related conditions that are affected by the different types of anger we women must hide from our husbands, mothers-in-law, and concubines. And then there are the ailments connected to Lung emotions—sadness and worry.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Weariness of Men My grandmother said when she was young The grass was so wild and high You couldn't see a man on horseback. In the fields she made out Three barns, Dark and blown down from the weather Like her husbands. She remembers them in the dark, Cursing the beasts, And how they would leave the bed In the morning, The dead grass of their eyes Stacked against her.

How vague these husbands are.

Explanations are for husbands, for people you don't care about any more.

Rakish men make not either good husbands, or good fathers; nor yet good brothers. — But, no wonder! The narrow-hearted creatures centre all their delight in themselves.

Practically every man remains in delirium before marrying the woman that he would not meet the ordeal like that of other husbands at the hands of their wives, but soon after wedding all those thoughts start shattering before own eyes and the lucky one awakens to the marital life's reality the very first.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.

Happy the cicadas, for they have voiceless wives!' To which I would respond by saying: 'Pity the female cicadas, for they have singing husbands!

By now I can recognize the women at a glance...with faces that are either grim or good-humored, depending on the mood of their husbands.

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

The women never complained to the officers. It was not that they were afraid of them — quite the reverse, in fact. But their husbands cut up rough with them if they caused trouble. A tough trooper could manfully endure flogging, but wept tears of humiliation if he were lashed by an officer's tongue over something his wife had done.

No es bien, señor capitán Cortés, que mujeres españolas dejen a sus maridos yendo a la guerra; donde ellos murieren moriremos nosotras, y es razón que los indios entiendan que son tan valientes los españoles que hasta sus mujeres saben pelear (MARÍA DE ESTRADA).

I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.

Marry him. Good dull husbands are hard to find.