"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!" - Maryon Pearson
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"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." - Anonymous
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"Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases." - Anonymous |
| "Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success." - Jim Backus |
"A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle." - Baudelaire |
| "Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender." - Mary Buckley |
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie |
| "The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong." - Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, U.S. television show |
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in." - Benjamin Franklin |
"An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't." - Sacha Guitry |
| "Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended." - Zsa Zsa Gabor |
"Choose a wife by your ear than your eye." - Thomas Fuller, 1732 |
"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." - Sacha Guitry |
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband." - Michel de Montaigne |
| "Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers." - W. Somerset Maugham |
"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it." - Shirley MacLaine |
"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 |
"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." - Lana Turner |
| "Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first." - Billy Sunday |
