Henpecked Husband Quotes & Sayings

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. — Edmund Burke

Even if she were going crazy, she didn't want to look like she was going crazy. — Rick Riordan

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! — Julia McNair Wright

Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward ... just patience and faith. — Cristina Marrero

I'd much rather play the psycho than the pretty girl in hot pants. — Cush Jumbo

I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama. — Lee Hall

Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of our deepest troubles is also the water of our own solution. In surrender, we descend down to the bottom of it and back to the beginning of it; down into what is divided in order to get back to the wholeness before the split. Healing, health, wealth, wholeness: all hail from the same roots. To heal is to make whole again; wholeness is what all healing seeks and what alone can truly unify our spirit. — Michael Meade

Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit. — Michael Dirda

It was the funeral of a woman who had henpecked her husband, driven her kids half nuts, scrapped with the neighbors at the slightest opportunity, and even made neurotics of their cat and dog with her explosive temper. As the casket was lowered into the grave, a violent thunderstorm broke, and the pastor's benediction was drowned out by a blinding flash of lightning, followed by terrific thunder. "Well, at least we know she got there all right," commented her husband. — Various

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history. — Benito Mussolini

Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly. — David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence. — Aneurin Bevan