Husbands

(411 votes)   I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

John Lennon
1940-1980, British Rock Musician

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(376 votes)   The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(363 votes)   Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.

Marlene Dietrich
1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor

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(310 votes)   A good husband is healthy and absent.

Japanese Proverbs
Sayings of Japanese Origin

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(291 votes)   His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

Queen Victoria
1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain

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(286 votes)   Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(286 votes)   I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(285 votes)   A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous Poet

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(275 votes)   No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

Tallulah Bankhead
1903-1968, American Actress

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(275 votes)   You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte
1816-1855, British Novelist

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(274 votes)   The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(271 votes)   Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.

Zsa Zsa Gabor
1918-, Hungarian-born American Actress

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(269 votes)   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.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(268 votes)   When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.

Molly Mcgee

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(267 votes)   They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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