Married men make the best husbands.
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.
No worse a husband than the best of men.
Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up.
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.
