“I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.” – Elizabeth I

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.” – H. L. Mencken

“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.” – Booth Tarkington

“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.” – Honore de Balzac

“I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.” – Anton Chekhov

“A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.” – Charles M. Schwab

“My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.” – James Dobson

“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.” – George Eliot

“The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.” – Herbert V. Prochnow

“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.” – B. R. Ambedkar

“The ideal man doesn’t exist. A husband is easier to find.” – Britt Ekland

“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” – Honore de Balzac