Top 100 Quotes About Spouse
#1. Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_
David Leavitt
#2. If you're closing in on age 62 and intend to apply for a former spouse's Social Security benefit, don't remarry. You have to be single at the time you apply.
Jean Chatzky
#3. Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
Albert Brooks
#4. Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
Joel Osteen
#5. We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
Margaret Mead
#7. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#8. One of the most loving things you can ever do for your spouse is to pray for them. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).
Alex Kendrick
#9. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.
Cyprian
#11. The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words.
Gary Chapman
#12. Okay, I cannot say this without being very direct. If you are looking for a spouse or even a romance through social media, you are looking for trouble.
John Patrick Hickey
#14. A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you're having boring, obligatory sex with your spouse, who's as dry and exciting as a sack of flour.
Jarod Kintz
#15. If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.
John Medina
#16. She watched his gaze flicker over her suit, her gleaming shoes, and realized he was performing the same reconciliations she was, adjusting a mental image of a long-ago spouse to match the changed person sitting before him.
Emily St. John Mandel
#17. However, some people have remarked that it's easier for them to have actual intercourse with their spouse than to kiss them because kissing is too intimate and they just don't have that kind of relationship.
Kristin B. Hodson
#18. The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you're not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it's better not to date but simply to remain friends.
Mark Driscoll
#19. your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?
Matt Morris
#20. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.
Francis Chan
#21. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.
Malti Bhojwani
#22. We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
Hunter Tylo
#23. There is a third truth, which only the mature lover will be able to hear. My spouse's criticisms about my behavior provide me with the clearest clue to her primary love language.
Gary Chapman
#24. Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#25. What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!
Marly Youmans
#26. When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.
Sarah Mlynowski
#27. No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler -
Lois Lowry
#28. At 19, I went to live in the Philippines for three years as a U.S. Air Force 'dependent spouse.' I lived off-base in Angeles City and had to haul water for drinking and cooking.
Therese Fowler
#29. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
#30. The Holy Spirit does not act except through the Immaculata, his spouse. Hence, she is the Mediatrix of all the graces of the Holy Spirit.
Michael Gaitley
#31. Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.
Suze Orman
#32. Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
P. J. O'Rourke
#33. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.
Glenn Schiraldi
#34. Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
Clayton Christensen
#35. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.
Candace Bushnell
#37. Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don't love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#38. Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.
Louise Hay
#39. I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
Andrew Solomon
#40. I once looked in the mirror at myself and noticed that, without a doubt, I am a sexy man. In fact, I don't think I'll ever get married ... it just wouldn't be fair for my spouse to catch me enjoying a look in the mirror more than having sex with her.
Zach Braff
#41. Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse ... discretions apply elsewhere
Amit Abraham
#42. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Jess C. Scott
#43. What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you - your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life - money, relationships, speech, possessions?
Billy Graham
#44. After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.
Claire Dyer
#45. Marriage is not difficult ... It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult ...
K.j. Force
#46. A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.
Cindy Meehl
#47. There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
Jeffrey Kluger
#48. Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.
Ted Lowe
#49. When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence. We need to preach a righteous lifestyle.
Christine O'Donnell
#50. Sometimes our words are saying one thing, but our tone of voice is saying another. We are sending double messages. Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.
Gary Chapman
#51. It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
Mark Hart
#52. Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.
Fawn Weaver
#53. That's what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don't believe anymore
Michael J. Sullivan
#54. Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
Fannie Flagg
#55. Supervillainy seemed like the sort of thing you needed to be upfront with your spouse about.
C.T. Phipps
#56. How many can honestly say that they never fell in love with someone else along the way, someone they didn't pursue because they'd made a vow to stay with their spouse? How many would say they regretted that choice?
Holly Chamberlin
#57. Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.
Mark Driscoll
#58. A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.
Ted Cruz
#60. Searching through Monster while on the clock feels like being on Tinder while still married.
Crystal Woods
#61. Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them.
Gary L. Thomas
#62. All of life is relationship. We relate to people, things, and ideas, and our actions reflect the tone and substance of each relationship. How we relate to money, to the ideal of love, to nature, to our concept of death, and to our spouse reveals, in the moment, the truth of ourselves.
John McAfee
#63. E are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
Peter McWilliams
#64. You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam
#65. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
John Piper
#66. If your spouse wants to cheat on you, he or she will. This world is a haven of opportunities. But no matter what, in any relationship, one must never doubt the spouse
Jagdish Joghee
#67. One of the best wedding gfts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, "Here's to helping you discover what you're really like!" - Gary and Betsy Ricucci
Gary L. Thomas
#68. People are worried that their inner voice will tell them to leave their husbands or wives - or their jobs. Well, if that's really what your inner guidance is saying, then that is for your highest good and for your spouse's or partner's. There is a plan for everyone.
Echo Bodine
#69. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
Yasmin Mogahed
#71. I only winged him, which is what I meant to do. Believe me, I'm a crack shot.
Madge Bellamy
#72. Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.
Martha Stout
#73. Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you'd crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.
Lauren Groff
#74. Tell your spouse you are trying to make changes and THEN appeal to your spouse to understand you.
Emerson Eggerichs
#75. When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
Phil McGraw
#76. People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.
C. JoyBell C.
#77. The critic had added a personal note: Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie.
Dan Simmons
#78. Never tell the same lie twice. Lies have to be fresh, constantly changing. You cheat on your spouse, come up with a new excuse every time you're home late. Don't, and you get eaten.
Nicholas Lamar Soutter
#79. Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie. Sol
Dan Simmons
#80. Trying to prove scientifically the historical accuracy of events in the Bible is to faith what having your spouse under twenty-four-hour video surveillance is to marital trust.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#81. I didn't understand at all that the memories accumulated during years of happiness could weigh enough to balance so large a loss, or that the mind will sometimes find a way to free the heart from pain.
Eric Kraft
#82. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.
Paul David Tripp
#83. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?
Lisa Belkin
#84. Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn't feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior.
Larry R. Lawrence
#85. Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
Dennis Prager
#86. We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#87. The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
Russell M. Nelson
#88. A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies
the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.
T. Berry Brazelton
#89. The way you date(treat) your spouse, truly has an impact inside and outside of your marriage.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#90. It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
Martin Luther
#91. Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?
Joan Z. Borysenko
#92. She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.
Virginia Woolf
#93. When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
Laura Schlessinger
#94. Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?
Thomas Watson
#95. Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush
#96. The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#97. It was generally less shocking to Liz that twenty years after high school she was still her essential self, the self she'd grown up as, unencumbered by spouse or child, than that nearly everyone else had changed, moved on, and multiplied. After
Curtis Sittenfeld
#98. You cannot really lose anything because you don't own anything in the first place. Not the stuff you have, nor your spouse, nor your property. They are given to you for temporary keep.
Chuck Chakrapani
#99. What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.
Charlie Munger
#100. Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the right pet, anything at all, IS the universe, for the universe IS everything.
Stephen Richards
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