Husband Quotes - Page 5

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

If a man treats you like a princess, he deserves to be your king.

Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts

I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.

God will bless you and your marriage when you follow His blueprint.

We don’t treat each other very well, I suppose. Even from the start. It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley that I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. At weddings we roll our eyes at the burgeoning love around us, the vows that we know will morph into new kinds of promises: I vow not to kiss you when you’re trying to read. I will tolerate you in sickness and ignore you in health. I promise to let you watch that stupid news show about celebrities, since you’re so disenchanted with your own life.Joanie and I were urged by her brother, Barry, to subject ourselves to counseling as a decent couple would. Barry is a man of the couch, a believer in weekly therapy, affirmations, and pulse points. Once he tried to show us exercises he’d been doing in session with his girlfriend. We were instructed to trade reasons, abstract or specific, why we stayed with each other. I started off by saying that Joanie would get drunk and pretend I was someone else and do this neat thing with her tongue. Joanie said tax breaks. Barry cried. Openly. His second wife had recently left him for someone who understood that a man didn’t do volunteer work.

The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.

My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

You only need to steal a woman's heart if she won't give it to you willingly.

Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in them that you admire. Incorporate those attributes into your own life and you won’t miss a thing.

Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.

Husband: a former boyfriend

Love only knocks on your heart’s door when certain it has the right address.

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.Yours truly,Earl AdcockP.S. I'm not deaf.

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

A kiss is the easiest thing to throw at someone because its weight is love.

I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.

Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately called him. The first thing I asked was what his wife thought of the plan.“Well, in a way,” he said, “it was Lisa who gave me the idea. Remember how I said she wanted me to do something concrete, get some kind of a proper job?”“I do,” I said. “Although I’m guessing running for president on the immortality platform was not what she had in mind.”“That’s correct,” he confirmed. “It took a little while for her to come around to the idea.”“How did you break it to her?”“I left a note on the refrigerator,” he said, “and went out for a couple hours.

If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man.

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

Marry the one who laughs when you laugh, and you are clever; marry the one who cries when you cry, and you are intelligent, but marry the one who does both with you, and you are wise.

I was the luckiest girl. Don’t you think because I didn’t have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasn’t no place I’d rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable rock. Because he was watching over me and loneliness was some far off thing, echoing off the Rock from other folks. Wasn’t nothing could ruin it for me.

An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.

Marrying a stupid person is a reflection of your thoughtlessness.Marrying a clever person is a reflection of your intelligence.Marrying a wise person is a reflection of your shrewdness.Marrying a virtuous person is a reflection of your uprightness.

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...

Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet.

She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you.

I can sense your love,why leave me in darkness?Beguile me for your amusement,stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes.When we are apart, I am extinguishedin the blackness of these skies.

Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

With you, I am. Without you, I am not.

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.

A bird cannot love freely when caged.

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.