Married Couples Quotes - Page 4

• To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

  Julie Burchill

  Couple, Stupid, Believe

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• I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Marriage, Couple, Book

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.218, Destiny Image Publishers

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• If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Couple, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and that's what our marriage is grounded in. We also have other married couples who are examples in our lives. My parents have been married over 40 years, and both sets of grandparents for over 65 years. When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it's about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless.

  Candace Cameron

  Couple, Years, Long

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• Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Friendship, Children, Couple

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• No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

  Tim Kaine

  Couple, Virginia, Married

  "Kaine-Kilgore Race Will Be Waged on GOP's Chosen Turf". www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2005.

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• The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Feminist, Prejudice

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• Consider the standard two-person married couple. ... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology or even personal inclination. It is practically the definition of marriage. Marriage is socialism among two people.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Couple, Two, Vcr

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• An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

  Rod Laver

  Couple, Virginia, Games

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• Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

  Melissa Bean

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Couple, School

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• The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Mean, Land

  Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr

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• Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Couple, Divorce, Should Have

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• It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Couple, Passion, Heart

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• People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Couple

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• The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

  Paul Sadler

  Christian, Couple, Home

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• Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Couple, Home

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

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• Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

  Jerry Weller

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Couple

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