Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Clark

I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

Hans Rosling

My husband is my most valuable resource.

John Dryden

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Jodi Kantor

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

Jodi Benson

For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there werent really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.

About that time her husband declared he had been shot and went to his knees,

They don't want to give the wives their husbands' checks. It was insulting. They're telling us, 'Let your husband come and get it.' They know they are not here.

There were over 300 people at the wedding, more than 20 years ago. It's ridiculous to think that Judge Kaplan or her husband knew everyone at the wedding.

This is the third year my husband and I have come down to Florida. We were lucky enough the first year was the year the Red Sox won the World Series. We had come down just prior to those games, so it was a lot of fun.

Charles Spurgeon

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

Alan Bradley

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

Alan Bennett

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

Kurt Vonnegut

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

Bess Truman

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

Chanakya

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Chanakya

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

Charisma Carpenter

My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

Buddy Guy

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Catherine Deneuve

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

If my husband's going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

Betty Shabazz

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

Bob Schieffer

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

Chelsea Clinton

Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

Aisha Tyler

I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people."

Primarily it's women who will come in and say, 'These are the things that I am wanting, and I want to register for them so when my husband comes in he knows what I want,'

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

I used to start all kinds of sports with my husband and he was always better than me. It was supposed to be fun, but I am really competitive and he's really competitive.

Praise your True Husband Lord, who is all powerful to do all things.

Barbara Mertz

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Barbara Mertz

Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.