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A husband is a male spouse, or participant in a marriage.
Quotes
[edit]- But O ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 22.
- And truant husband should return, and say,
"My dear, I was the first who came away."- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 141.
- Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Colossians 3:19.
- Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:3 (First Letter of Saint Paul to Corinthians, 7:3).
- The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:4 (First Letter of Saint Paul to Corinthians, 7:4).
- An obedient wife commands her husband.
- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732), No. 640.
- God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass.
- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732), No. 1670.
- Conjugal government requires its treatises. A young woman setting out in life lacks a printed guide. Her cookery-book, however, may afford some useful hints till one be actually directed to the important subject just mentioned. Many well-known receipts are equally available for a batterie de cuisine or du cœur. Your roasted husband is subdued by the fire of fierce words and fiercer looks — your broiled husband, under the pepper and salt of taunt and innuendo — your stewed husband, under the constant application of petty vexations — your boiled husband dissolves under the watery influences — while your confectionized husband goes through a course of the blanc mange of flattery, or the preserves and sweets of caresses and smiles.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p113.
- The lover in the husband may be lost.
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady (1731), line 112.
- God is thy law, thou mine.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 637.
- The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 267.
- And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book X, line 195.
- With thee goes
Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound;
Where he abides, think there thy native soil.- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book XI, line 290.
- Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
- Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:3 (as quoted in World English Bible).
- The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
- Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:4 (as quoted in Catholic Bible Douay-Rehims).
- Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Saint Paul in Ephesians 5:28 (as quoted in www.ewtn.com).
- The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.- Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).
- Well, if our author in the wife offends
He has a husband that will make amends;
He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,
And sure such kind good creatures may be living.- Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).
- No worse a husband than the best of men.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 131.
- I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
Diet his sickness, for it is my office.- William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act V, scene 1, line 98.
- That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 1, line 103.
- If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 67.
- Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance.- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act V, scene 2, line 146.
- Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act V, scene 2, line 155.
- He who does not support a wife, he who does not support a child, has no cause for celebration.
- A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the steppe.