Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 2)

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband; how about short and cheap?

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anesthetic.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Husband: Someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

Every American woman has two souls to call her own, the other being her husband's.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

I’m still friends with all my ex’s, apart from my husbands.

(1946 – ) American recording artist, actress, director & record producer

Why do men die before their wives? … Could it be because they want to?

(1967 – ) English comedian

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

(1894 – 1975) American comedian

If you go to any book store and look at any book on marriage, you'll see at least one photo of me about to put an ice tray with only one ice cube left in it back into the refrigerator.

(1955 – ) American actor, stand-up comedian & impressionist

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

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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.

Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

(1958 – ) Australian author

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

Whatever arrangement you make for the division of household duties, your husband's job will be easier.