Spouse Quotes - Page 4

• To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Unhappy Childhood, Bored

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• It may be that the ignorant man, alone,
  Has any chance to mate his life with life
  That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life
  That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Men, Ignorant

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.231, Vintage

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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• It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

  Enoch Powell

  Funeral, Insane, Purpose

  John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing

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• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Love Is, Parent

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• Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.

  Sam Storms

  Husband, Jealous, Character

  Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.144, Tyndale House

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• Yet, know this if you understand nothing else: You have a right to your joy; children or no children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it! Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no matter how much money you make or don't make. And if they aren't joyful, and they get up and leave you, then release them with love to seek their joy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Children

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.174, Penguin

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• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

  Paul Bloom

  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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• It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Letting Go, Heart, Soul

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• The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

  Cyprian

  Christ, Chaste

  Saint Cyprian (2010). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.100, CUA Press

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• Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Wrath, Doubt, Needs

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• Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

  Albert Brooks

  Dating, Trouble, Enough

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• Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive. How easily do you get irritated and offended? Some people live by the motto, “Never pass up an opportunity to get upset with your spouse.” When something goes wrong, they quickly take full advantage of it by expressing how hurt or frustrated they are. But this is the opposite reaction of love.

  Alex Kendrick

  Hurt, Opportunity, Love Is

  Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.26, B&H Publishing Group

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• Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.

  Eric Schmidt

  Success, Country, Jobs

  Eric Schmidt's Commencement Address at University of California, Berkeley, news.berkeley.edu. May 14, 2012.

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• Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

  Amy Schumer

  Children, Cancer, Writing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.

  David Ogilvy

  Baby, Money, Two

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

  Margaret Mead

  Communicate, Persons

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• You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered
  thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.

  Mary Potter

  Grief, Sadness, Grieving

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• Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
  Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Party, Hands

  A. C. Grayling (2011). “The Good Book: A Secular Bible”, p.42, A&C Black

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• 65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, People, Income

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• I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

  Jack Canfield

  Children, Believe, 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, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.

  Guru Nanak

  Children, Accompany You, Names

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• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  Ike Barinholtz

  Girl, True Friend, Moving

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