Honesty And Marriage Quotes

#1. There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#2. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.

Philip Roth

#3. Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

Gordon B. Hinckley

#4. But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other
if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Erica Jong

#5. Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Alan Arkin

#6. Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really be braver than the rest - as if freedom were ultimately a matter of courage, of irreverence and honesty, of rebelliousness.

Daniel Bullen

#7. A good marriage takes effort, and honesty is a definite prerequisite.

Julie Garwood

#8. I don't feel good anymore with this skin... probably a new title... a new chapter.. something new will be more okay than that... to much honesty... I am not on this... After all if you don't know this fact, I am going to point it to you...
Marriage is successful if it's build on a lie...

Deyth Banger

#9. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Johnny Carson

#10. We live with mutual thought processes in relationships; less with the physical attractions, less with the fame, less with the social status, and less with any sort of materialistic attributes.

Rajasaraswathii

#11. Before I know it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that every day I look less like the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

Henry Cloud

#13. I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.

Cate Blanchett

#14. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

George Washington

#15. In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Charles Evans Hughes

#16. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

Myles Munroe

#18. Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Why risk the rare happy marriage-rarer still, a love marriage that endures-for something as common and toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty? Who would be helped by my telling? Me? not at all. I was made of steel, I promise you.

William Landay

#20. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

DaShanne Stokes

#22. The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.
And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.

Byron Katie

#23. When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Jose Parla

#24. The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

Cindy McCain

#25. It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Syd Barrett