The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving.
- Abigail Adams
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
- Franklin P Jones
She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
- Cecelia Ahern
I wasn't a fabulous cook. I didn't have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn't a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.
- Janet Evanovich
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
- Cleveland Amory
One well-meaning aunt had even told Amanda of her belief that the Lord had kept her from marrying solely to provide someone to take care of her ailing parents. Amanda would
have preferred the Almighty had made other arrangements. Apparently it had not occurred to anyone that Amanda might
have caught a husband, had the remaining years of her youth not been expended in caring for her mother and father.
- Lisa Kleypas
Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.
- Lisa Kleypas
Amanda made an ironic and surprising discovery - her marriage to Jack had given her far more freedom than she had enjoyed as a single woman. Because of him, she now had the money and influence to do as she wished...and most important, she had a husband who encouraged her to do exactly as she pleased.
- Lisa Kleypas
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream.
-Westcliff
- Lisa Kleypas
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
- Richard Armour
she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband.
- Jennifer Ashley
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
- Mary Astell
My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.
-Penelope Featherington
- Julia Quinn
A lot of women want children."
"Right," he said, coughing on the word. "Of course. But... dont you think you might want a husband first?"
"Of course.
- Julia Quinn
When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.
- Eric Bana
I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
- Ellen Barkin
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
- L M Montgomery
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
- Saul Bellow
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
- Arnold Bennett
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.
- E M Forster
What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
- Dewitt Bodeen
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
- Erma Bombeck
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
- Erma Bombeck
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the
world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a
corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!
- William Shakespeare
LEONATO
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
BEATRICE
Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
- William Shakespeare
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
Till I can find occasion of revenge.
- William Shakespeare
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
- James H Boren
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
- Tom Bosley
They'll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you're nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in there devouring their evil chocalates! Do you think you could control them?
- Ray Bradbury
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
- Barbara Bush
She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in
Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191
- Meljean Brook
Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.
- Nicholas Sparks
Beulah has a husband?'
I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.
- Bill Bryson
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
- George Bernard Shaw
Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.
- Emily Giffin
I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.
- Duane Chapman
Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There's someone who knows. Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
- Stephen King
Leibniz was somewhat mean about money. When any young lady at the court of Hanover married, he used to give her what he called a "wedding present," consisting of useful maxims, ending up with the advice not to give up washing now that she had secured a husband. History does not record whether the brides were grateful.
- Bertrand Russell
Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
- Agatha Christie
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
- Joan Collins
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
- Marie Corelli
I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
- Caroline Corr
A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.
- Lou Costello
I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
- Tom Cruise
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
- Ice Cube
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: That's the way the post-war movie goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I have to be a father first and a husband first.
- Antonio Davis
I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.
- Hope Davis
If you have regard to your future happiness, any view of living comfortably with a husband, any hope of preserving your fortunes or restoring them after any disaster, never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
- Daniel Defoe
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God a being capable of understanding.
- Graham Greene
Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. "I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods. Miss Morstan has done me the honour to accept me as a husband in prospective."
He gave a most dismal groan.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
- Lena Dunham
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.
- George Eliot
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
- Elizabeth I
A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.
- Evan Esar
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.
- Seth Grahame Smith
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
- Euripides
It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
- William Faulkner
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
- Roger Federer
What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
- Ken Follett
So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.
- Michael J Fox
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
- Michael J Fox
I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.
- Vanessa Hudgens
I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
- Lady Gaga
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
- Greta Garbo
Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
- Thomas Hardy
I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.
- Jami Gertz
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
- Oliver Goldsmith
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
- Bruce Greenwood
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
- George Savile
Bein' a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife.... Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with.
Bein' friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together; you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
- Christopher Hampton
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Herbie Hancock
I'd seen elevated social mamas do far worse in the name of securing a husband for their daughters. An eldery, gray-curled grandmother once tripped an eligible bachelor on his way to the gaming table so he would fall at her granddaughter's satin-slippered feet. Instead he'd landed on a footman and broken his arm.
- Alyxandra Harvey
Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband.
I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.
- Ethan Hawke
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.
- Anna Held
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
- Little Richard
As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
- Dustin Hoffman
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
- Homer
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
- Khaled Hosseini
And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward on final, cherished province: Motherhood. How delectable it was to think of this baby, her baby, their baby. How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being, to know that there was no need any longer for pebble games.
- Khaled Hosseini
When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.
- Khaled Hosseini
...and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
- Khaled Hosseini
... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.
- Khaled Hosseini
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
- Terrence Howard
Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be essentially good and loyal. It just wasn't written in a man's nature to be monogamous, that was all. And he owed something to his nature even when his nature was at odds with his desire, which was to stay at home and cherish his wife. It was his nature all nature, the rule of nature that was the bastard, not him.
- Howard Jacobson
When I was young and miserable and pretty
And poor, I'd wish
What all girls wish: to have a husband,
A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish
Is womanish:
That the boy putting groceries in my car
See me.
- Randall Jarrell
If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
- Robert Johnson
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.
- Erica Jong
I work as a husband, but I'm also trying to get employment as a neighbor. Sugar anyone?
- Jarod Kintz
I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
- Mindy Kaling
I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!
- Kim Kardashian
Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
- Mary Karr
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
- Jackie Kennedy
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
- Martin Luther
I know how people are with their habits of mind.. as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- Jack Kingston
There are some things I don't understand about Jess and never will. No wedding dress. No flowers. No photo album. No champagne. The only thing she got out of her wedding was a husband. (I mean, obviously the husband is the main point when you get married. Absolutely. That goes without saying. But still, not even a new pair of shoes?)
- Sophie Kinsella
I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.
- Akshay Kumar
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
- Ninon De Lenclos
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
- Brian Littrell
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.
- Daphne Du Maurier
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
- Elsa Maxwell
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
- George Mcgovern
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
- H L Mencken
Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?"
"Ah specs it's kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes' knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An' givin' dem whut dey thinks
dey wants saves a pile of mizry an' bein' a ole maid. An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense at
all. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin' a lady ef he suspicions she got mo' sense dan he has.
- Margaret Mitchell
Well you may never be or have a husband, you may never have or hold a child, you will learn to lose everything... We are temporary arrangements
- Alanis Morissette
Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.
- Maggie O Farrell
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
- Ozzy Osbourne
I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.
- Mehmet Oz
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
- Elizabeth Peters
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
- Elizabeth Peters
I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
- Priscilla Presley
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.
- Kelly Preston
Thank you, baby, for being my rock, my safe place to land, my inspiration, and my heart. No matter what, snaring you as a husband will always remain my greatest achievement. I love you.
- Zathyn Priest
She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.
- Barbara Pym
I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.
- Helen Reddy
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
- Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
- Samuel Richardson
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
- Samuel Richardson
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
- Judith Rossner
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
- Helen Rowland
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland
Every one of them has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's-because some worthless no-account-sonofabitch left her in the wilderness alone!
- Mary Doria Russell
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
- Jeanette Winterson
The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.
- Rob Sheffield
Even if I were trying to catch a husband I would never fish in shallow waters.
- Emma Smith
Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
- David Soul
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
- Lucy Stone
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
- Dorothy Stratten
A life was a secret thing, even between a husband and wife. Your secret life was completely your own, and because it was unknown, would never be mourned. The secret life of each individual went unhonored through eternity.
- Steve Rasnic Tem
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
- Anthony Trollope
If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.
- Anthony Trollope
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
- Anthony Trollope
Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
- Catherynne M Valente
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
- Orson Welles
By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling "the void" with a husband like Hiram, a "treasure rich and undeserved." Having read his insufferable memoir, "A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands", all I can say is: I'm happy for her?
- Sarah Vowell
A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
- Sol Wachtler
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
- Ethel Waters
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
- Ethel Waters
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
- Esther Williams
I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old.
"Think of it," I said to Laura when I turned twelve. "I'm almost Mother Sarah's age when she was married."
Laura looked at me, her squinty eyes even more narrowed. "You could have your own old man as a husband," she said.
"Shut up," I had said.
And she had laughed.
- Carol Lynch Williams
My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.
- Richard Wurmbrand
She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.
- Stefan Zweig
- Abigail Adams
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
- Franklin P Jones
She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
- Cecelia Ahern
I wasn't a fabulous cook. I didn't have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn't a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.
- Janet Evanovich
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
- Cleveland Amory
One well-meaning aunt had even told Amanda of her belief that the Lord had kept her from marrying solely to provide someone to take care of her ailing parents. Amanda would
have preferred the Almighty had made other arrangements. Apparently it had not occurred to anyone that Amanda might
have caught a husband, had the remaining years of her youth not been expended in caring for her mother and father.
- Lisa Kleypas
Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.
- Lisa Kleypas
Amanda made an ironic and surprising discovery - her marriage to Jack had given her far more freedom than she had enjoyed as a single woman. Because of him, she now had the money and influence to do as she wished...and most important, she had a husband who encouraged her to do exactly as she pleased.
- Lisa Kleypas
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream.
-Westcliff
- Lisa Kleypas
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
- Richard Armour
she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband.
- Jennifer Ashley
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
- Mary Astell
My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.
-Penelope Featherington
- Julia Quinn
A lot of women want children."
"Right," he said, coughing on the word. "Of course. But... dont you think you might want a husband first?"
"Of course.
- Julia Quinn
When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.
- Eric Bana
I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
- Ellen Barkin
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
- L M Montgomery
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
- Saul Bellow
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
- Arnold Bennett
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.
- E M Forster
What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
- Dewitt Bodeen
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
- Erma Bombeck
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
- Erma Bombeck
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the
world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a
corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!
- William Shakespeare
LEONATO
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
BEATRICE
Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
- William Shakespeare
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
Till I can find occasion of revenge.
- William Shakespeare
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
- James H Boren
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
- Tom Bosley
They'll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you're nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in there devouring their evil chocalates! Do you think you could control them?
- Ray Bradbury
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
- Barbara Bush
She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in
Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the sailors. - pag. 191
- Meljean Brook
Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.
- Nicholas Sparks
Beulah has a husband?'
I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.
- Bill Bryson
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
- George Bernard Shaw
Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.
- Emily Giffin
I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.
- Duane Chapman
Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There's someone who knows. Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
- Stephen King
Leibniz was somewhat mean about money. When any young lady at the court of Hanover married, he used to give her what he called a "wedding present," consisting of useful maxims, ending up with the advice not to give up washing now that she had secured a husband. History does not record whether the brides were grateful.
- Bertrand Russell
Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
- Agatha Christie
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
- Joan Collins
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
- Marie Corelli
I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
- Caroline Corr
A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.
- Lou Costello
I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
- Tom Cruise
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
- Ice Cube
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: That's the way the post-war movie goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I have to be a father first and a husband first.
- Antonio Davis
I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.
- Hope Davis
If you have regard to your future happiness, any view of living comfortably with a husband, any hope of preserving your fortunes or restoring them after any disaster, never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
- Daniel Defoe
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God a being capable of understanding.
- Graham Greene
Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. "I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods. Miss Morstan has done me the honour to accept me as a husband in prospective."
He gave a most dismal groan.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
- Lena Dunham
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.
- George Eliot
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
- Elizabeth I
A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.
- Evan Esar
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.
- Seth Grahame Smith
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
- Euripides
It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
- William Faulkner
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
- Roger Federer
What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
- Ken Follett
So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.
- Michael J Fox
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
- Michael J Fox
I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.
- Vanessa Hudgens
I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
- Lady Gaga
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
- Greta Garbo
Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
- Thomas Hardy
I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.
- Jami Gertz
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
- Oliver Goldsmith
I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
- Bruce Greenwood
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
- George Savile
Bein' a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife.... Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with.
Bein' friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together; you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
- Christopher Hampton
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
- Herbie Hancock
I'd seen elevated social mamas do far worse in the name of securing a husband for their daughters. An eldery, gray-curled grandmother once tripped an eligible bachelor on his way to the gaming table so he would fall at her granddaughter's satin-slippered feet. Instead he'd landed on a footman and broken his arm.
- Alyxandra Harvey
Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband.
I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.
- Ethan Hawke
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.
- Anna Held
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
- Little Richard
As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
- Dustin Hoffman
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
- Homer
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
- Khaled Hosseini
And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward on final, cherished province: Motherhood. How delectable it was to think of this baby, her baby, their baby. How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being, to know that there was no need any longer for pebble games.
- Khaled Hosseini
When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.
- Khaled Hosseini
...and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
- Khaled Hosseini
... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.
- Khaled Hosseini
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
- Terrence Howard
Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be essentially good and loyal. It just wasn't written in a man's nature to be monogamous, that was all. And he owed something to his nature even when his nature was at odds with his desire, which was to stay at home and cherish his wife. It was his nature all nature, the rule of nature that was the bastard, not him.
- Howard Jacobson
When I was young and miserable and pretty
And poor, I'd wish
What all girls wish: to have a husband,
A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish
Is womanish:
That the boy putting groceries in my car
See me.
- Randall Jarrell
If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
- Robert Johnson
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.
- Erica Jong
I work as a husband, but I'm also trying to get employment as a neighbor. Sugar anyone?
- Jarod Kintz
I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
- Mindy Kaling
I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!
- Kim Kardashian
Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
- Mary Karr
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
- Jackie Kennedy
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
- Martin Luther
I know how people are with their habits of mind.. as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- Jack Kingston
There are some things I don't understand about Jess and never will. No wedding dress. No flowers. No photo album. No champagne. The only thing she got out of her wedding was a husband. (I mean, obviously the husband is the main point when you get married. Absolutely. That goes without saying. But still, not even a new pair of shoes?)
- Sophie Kinsella
I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.
- Akshay Kumar
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
- Ninon De Lenclos
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
- Brian Littrell
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.
- Daphne Du Maurier
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
- Elsa Maxwell
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
- George Mcgovern
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
- H L Mencken
Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?"
"Ah specs it's kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes' knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An' givin' dem whut dey thinks
dey wants saves a pile of mizry an' bein' a ole maid. An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense at
all. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin' a lady ef he suspicions she got mo' sense dan he has.
- Margaret Mitchell
Well you may never be or have a husband, you may never have or hold a child, you will learn to lose everything... We are temporary arrangements
- Alanis Morissette
Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.
- Maggie O Farrell
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
- Ozzy Osbourne
I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.
- Mehmet Oz
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
- Elizabeth Peters
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
- Elizabeth Peters
I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
- Priscilla Presley
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.
- Kelly Preston
Thank you, baby, for being my rock, my safe place to land, my inspiration, and my heart. No matter what, snaring you as a husband will always remain my greatest achievement. I love you.
- Zathyn Priest
She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.
- Barbara Pym
I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.
- Helen Reddy
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
- Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
- Samuel Richardson
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
- Samuel Richardson
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
- Judith Rossner
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
- Helen Rowland
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland
Every one of them has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's-because some worthless no-account-sonofabitch left her in the wilderness alone!
- Mary Doria Russell
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
- Jeanette Winterson
The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.
- Rob Sheffield
Even if I were trying to catch a husband I would never fish in shallow waters.
- Emma Smith
Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
- David Soul
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
- Lucy Stone
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
- Dorothy Stratten
A life was a secret thing, even between a husband and wife. Your secret life was completely your own, and because it was unknown, would never be mourned. The secret life of each individual went unhonored through eternity.
- Steve Rasnic Tem
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
- Anthony Trollope
If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.
- Anthony Trollope
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
- Anthony Trollope
Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
- Catherynne M Valente
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
- Orson Welles
By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling "the void" with a husband like Hiram, a "treasure rich and undeserved." Having read his insufferable memoir, "A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands", all I can say is: I'm happy for her?
- Sarah Vowell
A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
- Sol Wachtler
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
- Ethel Waters
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
- Ethel Waters
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
- Esther Williams
I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old.
"Think of it," I said to Laura when I turned twelve. "I'm almost Mother Sarah's age when she was married."
Laura looked at me, her squinty eyes even more narrowed. "You could have your own old man as a husband," she said.
"Shut up," I had said.
And she had laughed.
- Carol Lynch Williams
My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.
- Richard Wurmbrand
She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.
- Stefan Zweig
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