Husbands are in heaven whose wives chide not. [ Proverb ]

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it. [ Proverb ]

Warm fortunes are always sure of getting good husbands. [ Goldsmith ]

Modern women understand everything except their husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Maids want nothing but husbands, and then they want everything. [ Proverb ]

Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but husbands none at all. [ Proverb ]

Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. [ Jean Paul ]

There are few husbands whom the I wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. [ Wilkie Collins ]

One can always recognize women who trust their husbands, they look so thoroughly unhappy. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands, if it were not the custom to weep!

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. [ Byron ]

Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The London season is entirely matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands or hiding from them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The amount of women who flirt with their own husbands is scandalous. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

We tell the ladies that good wives make good husbands; I believe it is a more certain position that good brothers make good sisters. [ Johnson ]

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two. [ La Bruyere ]

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. [ Mme. Paterson Bonaparte ]

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are; they have no time, they are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]