A husband is a male lifetime partner in a marital relationship. The rights and obligations of the husband regarding his spouse and others, and his status in the community and in law, vary between cultures and has varied over time. In a heterosexual relationship, a man's spouse would be his wife.
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Famous quotes containing the word husband:
“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,
How mony lengthen’d, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“A husband is very much like a house or a horse.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)