Husbands

A newly wed husband kissing his bride

A husband is a male spouse, or participant in a marriage.

Quotes

• 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.

• A man who only becomes a husband brings pain to his parents, and a man who only becomes a son brings pain to his wife.
  • Sanu Sharma, Biplavi

• He who does not support a wife, he who does not support a child, has no cause for celebration.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection I at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the steppe.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection I at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

See also

• Wives
• Marriage

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