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Husband: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away."— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 141.

The lover in the husband may be lost.— LORD LYTTLETON — Advice to a Lady. L. 112.

And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. X. L. 195.

God is thy law, thou mine.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 637.

The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 267.

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 290.

The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true, And lov'd his country.— POPE — Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore.

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.— POPE — Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore.

A very man-not one of nature's clods- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods But apt to take his temper from his dinner.— J. G. SAXE — About Husbands.

If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act I. So. 2. L. 67.

I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sickness, for it is my office.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 98.

No worse a husband than the best of men.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 131.

That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 103.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 146.