In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember 3 the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

-Adams, Abigail
  Letter to  John  Adams, 31 Mar.

   Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

-Bellow, Saul
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.6.

Being a husband isawhole-timejob.That iswhysomany husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
  The Title, act1.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 3:16.

Say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? isit well with the child? And sheanswered,It is well.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 4:26.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 7:14.

Ah! gentle dames! it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!

-Burns, Robert
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

Nay, for my part I always despised MrTattle of all things; nothing but his being my husband could have made me like him less.

-Congreve,William
  Mrs Frail to Mrs Foresight. Love for Love, act 5, sc.11.

Thetrouble about finding a husband forone'smistress, is that no other man seems quite good enough.

-Cooper,William pseudonym of  Harry Summerfield Hoff
  Scenes from Provincial Life, pt.3, ch.5.

I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to'em.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Jerry Cruncher.  A  Tale of  Two Cities, bk.2, ch.1.

   Be courtly ay in clething and costlyarrayit, That hurtis yow nought worth a hen; yowr husband pays for all.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
early 16c The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, l.268^9.

Awoman, let her be asgood as shemay, hasgot to put up with the life her husband makes for her.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.3, ch.25.

I think that people will concede that, on this of all days, I should begin my speech with the words,'My husband and I'.

-Elizabeth II
  Speech at a banquet to celebrate her silver wedding anniversary, 20 Nov.

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.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

   Nothing else that a wife may suffer, equals this: if she loses her husband, she loses her life.

-Euripides
Andromacha, l.375^6.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

-Greer, Germaine
  The Female Eunuch,'Love: Security'.

Every night, whisper 'Peace' in your husband's ear.

-Griswold, Alfred Whitney
  Said to Nancy Reagan at a White House reception, 28 Sep.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

-James, Alice
  Diary entry,19 Nov.