Husbands Quotes

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

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

But of all things that a woman gains by marriage the most valuable is economic security. Such security, of course, is seldom absolute, but usually merely relative: the best provider among husbands may die without enough life insurance, or run off with some preposterous light of love, or become an invalid or insane, or step […]

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Married men make the best husbands.

What is esteemed and valuable, in our materialistic and unintelligent society, is precisely that petty practical efficiency at which men are expert, and which serves them in place of free intelligence. A woman, save she show a masculine strain that verges upon the pathological, cannot hope to challenge men in general in this department, but […]

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out.

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.

But there are other benefits, too. One of them is that increase in dignity which goes with an obvious success; the woman who has got herself a satisfactory husband, or even a highly imperfect husband, is regarded with respect by other women, and has a contemptuous patronage for those who have failed to do likewise.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.