Quotes About Good Spouses

#1. Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

Claire Tomalin

#2. Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Isabel Allende

#3. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

Mark Driscoll

#4. I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Khaled Hosseini

#5. Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#6. It's nice when there's stuff in the middle of the table. That's when the best conversations start to happen.

Daniel Humm

#7. When the older folks I interviewed described the reasons that they dated, got engaged to, and then married their eventual spouses, they'd say things like "He seemed like a pretty good guy," "She was a nice girl;" "He had a good job," and "She had access to doughnuts and I like doughnuts.

Aziz Ansari

#8. There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.

Mary Lou Retton

#9. I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an introspective album.

Tupac Shakur

#10. If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.

Andrew Dice Clay

#11. I had at least loved Psyche truly. There, if nowhere else, I had the right of it and the gods were in the wrong.

C.S. Lewis

#12. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

Sheryl Lee Ralph

#14. I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.

Julia Karr

#15. No," Bertie said, "something tragic. The most famous of all the Shakespearean tragedies-"
Mustardseed jumped up and down. "Your hair!"
"Shakespearean tragedy, Mustardseed.

Lisa Mantchev

#16. If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.

David Berg

#18. A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.

Jennie Finch