Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 5)

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The gifts you buy your wife are never as appropriate as the gifts your neighbor buys his wife.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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

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

Before we make love, my husband takes a painkiller.

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

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

(1864 – 1943) English writer

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains; what good are brains to a man? … they only unsettle him.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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

(1894 – 1988) American journalist, novelist & screenwriter

Husband: A person who is the boss of his house and has his wife’s permission to say so.

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.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix’ that's why he's never worked.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

You know… there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time… husband!

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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

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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

There's a new Playboy for married men – and it has the same centerfold every month.

(1959 – ) American comedian, actress & singer

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist