As the husband is, the wife is:
Thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature
Will have weight to drag thee down. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The better workman the worse husband. [ Proverb ]

A light wife doth make a heavy husband [ William Shakespeare ]

An obedient wife commands her husband. [ Proverb ]

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine;
Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine. [ William Shakespeare ]

If her husband like it, I like it also. [ Proverb ]

What a husband forbids, a wife desires. [ Proverb ]

The husband's mother is the wife's devil. [ German Proverb ]

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why are those tears? why droops your head
Is then your other husband dead?
Or does a worse disgrace betide?
Hath no one since his death applied? [ Gay ]

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. [ Italian Proverb ]

If the husband be not at home, there is nobody. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass. [ Proverb ]

In the husband, wisdom; in the wife, gentleness. [ Proverb ]

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. [ Balzac ]

Husband, you are a cuckold; Wife, who told you so? [ Proverb ]

She that hath an ill husband shews it in her dress. [ Proverb ]

The wrongs of a husband or master are not reproached. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Husband, don't believe what you see, but what I tell you. [ Proverb ]

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. [ Moliere ]

It is necessary to be almost a genius to make a good husband. [ Balzac ]

Hold your tongue, husband; let me talk, that have all the wit. [ Proverb ]

The husband who is not loved will pay for it dearly, some day. [ Proverb ]

Call your husband cuckold in jest, and he'll never suspect you. [ Proverb ]

A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying. [ A. Dumas pere ]

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. [ Proverb ]

A lover has all the virtues and all the defects that a husband has not. [ Balzac ]

A husband is a sort of promissory note - a woman is tired of meeting him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. [ Fuller ]

To render a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf and the woman blind. [ Proverb ]

In love, the husband sees but the statue: the soul is shown only to the lover. [ Crebillon ]

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. [ Hitopadesa ]

When the husband is fire, and the wife tow, the devil easily sets all in a flame. [ Proverb ]

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. [ Goldsmith ]

Nothing is more difficult than to choose a good husband - unless it be to choose a good wife. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

A woman can not guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the greatest and most perfect of men. [ George Sand ]

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

When the husband drinks to the wife, all would be well; when the wife drinks to the husband, all is well. [ Proverb ]

A lover is a herald who proclaims the merit, the wit, or the beauty of a woman: what does a husband proclaim? [ Balzac ]

The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband.

A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than now and then. [ Balzac ]

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Husband and wife, - so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! [ Ruffini ]

Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father. [ Jean Paul ]

It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. [ Bacon ]

The last word is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

She is not a brilliant woman; she is not even an intellectual one; but there is such a thing as a genius for affection, and she has it. It has been good for her husband that he married her. [ Helen Hunt ]

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]

More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Gifts of rings by lovers have always been common; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feelings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

To continue love in marriage is a science. It requires so little to kill those sweet emotions, those precious illusions, which form the charm of life; and it is so difficult to maintain a man at the height on which an exalted passion has placed him, especially when that man is one's husband! [ Mme. Reybaud ]

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]