Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 2)

The first time you go out after your wife’s birthday, you will see the gift you gave her marked down fifty percent.
Corollary: If she’s with you, she’ll assume you chose it because it was cheap.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Before we make love, my husband takes a painkiller.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

I’d go to the end of the world for my husband; of course, if he’d just stop and ask directions, I wouldn’t have to.

(1951 – ) American author, playwright & lyricist

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do… but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

My husband said he needed more space… so I locked him outside.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

They have come up with a perfect understanding; he won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

(1954 – ) Indian Professor of Journalism

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

(1894 – 1988) American journalist, novelist & screenwriter

Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.

(1942 – 1999) American actress

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

If you run into an old girlfriend – no matter how innocently – your wife will know about it before you get home.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

I understand that many newlyweds are vacationing here (Niagara Falls)… I suppose seeing the falls was their second biggest disappointment.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Women should put a picture of their missing husbands on beer cans.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer