Husbands And Wives Quotes

“Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

“Before marriage, man seeks woman, in marriage woman seeks man”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“How to share leisure time is a phantom issue between husbands and wives. It is more important than making a choice about children’s school...”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“Wife: a former girlfriend”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“She is the keeper of my heart, my soul, my dick and balls.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“One night, he posed the question: Does your husband mind that you are chatting with me?
New York Times Magazine, LIVES”
― Lisa K Friedman

“it's hard to be a faithful wife, in short,
To certain husbands of a certain sort”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“What makes a successful marriage is not love. What makes a successful marriage is knowing your place in this divine covenant. A man is meant to love and a woman is meant to submit. When you misplace your place there is bound to be errors and chaos.

Imagine a woman loving a man? She will be heartbroken cause the man is loving another. But when a woman is submissive to a man, the man is subjected by divine ordinance to love her, cause submissiveness propel and activate love no matter how you put it.

Now, let's imagine a man submitting to a woman. Well, I have no explanation to that. It is appalling and not something anyone wants to hear.

Love is shown by gifts (items, good treatment, kindness etc) but submissiveness is shown by obeying, listening and servanthood.

Psychologically, a servant who is diligent has more respect than a son of the house who is arrogant.

So, let's go back to the drawing board and make our marriages work - Victor Vote”
― Victor Vote

“We'll let Stefan fill you in on all the wedding plans," said Anastasia with a knowing smile. "Come, Cass. Let's find the wagon."
"It's right where I left it," Uncle Casimir protested as his wife tugged him away. "That's what I tie the horses for.”
― Sarah Brazytis, The Reluctant Bride

“Husbands who have been deceived and lied to and made to look fools have for centuries fled to South America, never to return. It’s a tradition that goes back a long way.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

“She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.”
― Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

“At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.”
― Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle (Ldp Litterature)

“My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highest form of politics with me. That’s why I don't understand her ways. I think I need to do a bit of political science to understand her”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.”
― Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics

“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is exotic. For some reason, Peter had thought she was the latter. But even if that had been the case, the problem inherent remains the same-- once she becomes a wife, the exotic becomes familiar, and thus predictable, and thus not what was wanted at all. Those few women who stayed exotic usually were considered, after a few years, to be crazy.”
― Anna Quindlen, Still Life with Bread Crumbs

“Know who you are, what you stand for- your enthusiasms, your ambitions, your hopes, your responsibilities. Remember that it's your husband for whom you're dressing. Keep him in mind when you shop.”
― Anne Fogarty, Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

“A husband's interest in his wife's wardrobe will add to his understanding of her needs and desires as a woman; a wife's regard for her husband's preferences and judgment on how she looks add up to a happy marriage,”
― Anne Fogarty, Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife

“At first I was for taking him back to you, myself. But my wife doesn't want me to. So, as usual, we've compromised by doing what she wants. She wants him to stay right here. Next time, his crazy luck might land him in dog heaven instead of here at Sunnybank. She says she'd rather have a live chum than a dead champion. Maybe she's right. I find she's apt to be.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Gray Dawn

“If you require a joy, you can't afford to be a wife”
― Arif Naseem

“James shows his feelings so liberally that they come at a discount, and their value diminishes. When he says he loves me, usually in a threatening way, the statement always seems to beg for reciprocation. I guess he cries wolf. More or less sobs it. One could argue that everything James says is merely the word “wolf” in one language or another.”
― Ben Marcus, Notes from the Fog: Stories

“Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. “Dread” is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.”
― Ben Marcus, Notes from the Fog: Stories

“We eat in silence, listening to the rain. Both of us look forlornly at the bar, thinking that we shouldn’t, we mustn’t. On the other hand, we could simply pass out drunk here and maybe they’d take us to jail. There are beds in jail. Soap. New people to meet.”
― Ben Marcus, Notes from the Fog: Stories

“She felt quite friendly to her husband. He never struck her. He never abused her. He always gave her exactly the same sum of money every Saturday, whatever receipts the shop brought in. He didn't drink. He praised her cooking. But on the other hand—oh, how happy she always was when he was well out of the way and she was left alone!”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“Of course, she [Alice Hayward] was right. She always was right, though now and again she suspected, with a touch of exasperation, that John didn't always think so. But he generally let her have her own way, and that, after all, is what matters to a wife, especially is she loves her husband as much as she, Alice, loved her John.”
― Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Chianti Flask

“What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women’s secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.”
― Anthony Hope, Rupert of Hentzau

“Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler.”
― Anthony Hope, Rupert of Hentzau