Husbands



A husband is a male spouse, or participant in a marriage.

Quotes

 * But O ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 22.


 * And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away."
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 141.


 * Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
 * Colossians 3:19.


 * Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
 * 1 Corinthians 7:3 (First Letter of Saint Paul to Corinthians, 7:3).


 * The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
 * 1 Corinthians 7:4 (First Letter of Saint Paul to Corinthians, 7:4).


 * An obedient wife commands her husband.
 * Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732), No. 640.


 * God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass.
 * Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732), No. 1670.


 * Conjugal government requires its treatises. A young woman setting out in life lacks a printed guide. Her cookery-book, however, may afford some useful hints till one be actually directed to the important subject just mentioned. Many well-known receipts are equally available for a batterie de cuisine or du cœur. Your roasted husband is subdued by the fire of fierce words and fiercer looks — your broiled husband, under the pepper and salt of taunt and innuendo — your stewed husband, under the constant application of petty vexations — your boiled husband dissolves under the watery influences — while your confectionized husband goes through a course of the blanc mange of flattery, or the preserves and sweets of caresses and smiles.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p113.


 * The lover in the husband may be lost.
 * George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady (1731), line 112.


 * God is thy law, thou mine.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 637.


 * The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 267.


 * And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book X, line 195.


 * With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book XI, line 290.


 * Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
 * Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:3 (as quoted in World English Bible).


 * The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
 * Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:4 (as quoted in Catholic Bible Douay-Rehims).


 * Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
 * Saint Paul in Ephesians 5:28 (as quoted in www.ewtn.com).


 * The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true, And lov'd his country.
 * Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).


 * Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living.
 * Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).


 * No worse a husband than the best of men.
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 131.


 * I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sickness, for it is my office.
 * William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act V, scene 1, line 98.


 * That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
 * William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 1, line 103.


 * If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.
 * William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 67.


 * Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance.
 * William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act V, scene 2, line 146.


 * Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
 * William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act V, scene 2, line 155.


 * He who does not support a wife, he who does not support a child, has no cause for celebration.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection I at,.


 * A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the steppe.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection I at,.