Subject: Marriage » Husbands (Page 5)

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

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

These days the meaning of a faithful husband is one whose alimony checks arrive on time.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

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

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

My grandmother buried three husbands… and two of them were only napping.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

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

(1958 – ) Australian author

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.

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

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

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

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

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

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

(1894 – 1975) American comedian

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

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

You might be a redneck if… you work with a shirt off… and so does your husband.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality