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Some are going out to join their husbands, some to find a husband, some few peradventure to leave a husband.
(Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. "The Journey to Panama," Lotta Schmidt: and Other Stories, vol. 1, London, Strahan (1867).)
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A good husband makes a good wife.
(John Florio (c. 1553-1625), British author, translator. Silvestro, in Second Frutes, ch. 12 (1591).
The adage is also found in Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 3, sct. 3 (1621).)
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My husband and I ...
(Elizabeth II (b. 1926), British monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Christmas Message, 1953, New Zealand.
This form of words used by the Queen to initiate a speech quickly became a regular feature of her delivery, though the alternative "Prince Philip and I ..." appeared in the 1960s when it was apparent that the familiar formula was becoming a joke.)
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As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Locksley Hall (l. 47). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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only the fact of her husband & four other people
kept me from springing on her
(John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Filling Her Compact (l. 5-7). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press (DREAM SONGS).)
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
(J. August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet. A Madman's Defense, pt. 2, ch. 1 (1968).)
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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Adriana, in The Comedy of Errors, act 2, sc. 2, l. 174-6.
The image of the vine embracing the elm is proverbial.)
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Lady D., in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, letter 5, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).)
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When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.
(H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 620, Knopf (1949).)
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My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "February 17th.")
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