Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 5)

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

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

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 successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend; a successful woman is one who can find such a man.

(1921 – 1995) American actress

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

(1924 – 2014) American actress & model

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


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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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 never married because there was no need: I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband – I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

(1855 – 1924) English writer

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

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

(1936 – ) novelist, essayist & columnist

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

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

There's nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

(1903 – 1987 diplomat, playwright, journalist & politician

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

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

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

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

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

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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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