Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 3)

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

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I’ve been married to one Marxist and one fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

(1927 – ) American actress

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

(1967 – ) English comedian

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.

How it Works: The Husband

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

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

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

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

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

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 marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Colonel Mustard: How many husbands have you had?
Mrs. White: Mine or other women's?

(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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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

(1929 – ) British military historian, cook book writer & novelist

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

No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

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