Pastoral Resources

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.