Pastoral Resources

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.