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Husbands should be like Kleenex:
by Clue

Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)

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Husbands Quotes and Sayings

Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous

Should Quotes and Sayings

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

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