HUSBANDS in Classic Quotes

1  Then Helen took her seat, put her feet upon the footstool, and began to question her husband.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV

2  Then, going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyes.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I

3  As for Telemachus, I warn him in the presence of you all to send his mother back to her father, who will find her a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts so dear a daughter may expect.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II

4  Bid the suitors take themselves off, each to his own place, and if your mother's mind is set on marrying again, let her go back to her father, who will find her a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts that so dear a daughter may expect.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I

5  Nevertheless, tramps in want of a lodging keep coming with their mouths full of lies, and not a word of truth; every one who finds his way to Ithaca goes to my mistress and tells her falsehoods, whereon she takes them in, makes much of them, and asks them all manner of questions, crying all the time as women will when they have lost their husbands.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

6  Thus she both was, and still is, respected beyond measure by her children, by Alcinous himself, and by the whole people, who look upon her as a goddess, and greet her whenever she goes about the city, for she is a thoroughly good woman both in head and heart, and when any women are friends of hers, she will help their husbands also to settle their disputes.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII