Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 3)

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

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

The only thing worse than a husband who never notices what you cook or what you wear is a husband who always notices what you cook and what you wear.

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

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

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

The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.


The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.

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

(1894 – 1988) American journalist, novelist & screenwriter

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

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

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

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

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

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 good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

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

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

How many husbands have I had?… do you mean apart from my own?

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

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.