Herbert Spencer Quotes

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

A marriage in which a woman is daily made to feel her dependence upon a man, is attended with the gravest moral perils. The only just rule is for the husband to allow his wife a fair share of his income, for her to do with as she pleases.

The woman’s own choice makes such a man her husband; yet being so chosen, he is her lord, and she is to be subject to him, yet in a way of liberty, not of bondage.

It is of public concern in many instances to merge their identity and give dominance to the husband.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.

You have to find a man that's going to respect you. With my husband, I tell him all the time the fact that he grew up in a home with his mom and his dad and they were married until he was grown made him have certain values and certain respect for me.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

We have this rule in our marriage, there's no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.