Husband And Wife Quotes - Page 7

• the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Sacrifice, Self

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.417, A&C Black

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• ("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they always do with husbands and wives." "That's stupid." "Why's it stupid?" "Because we're not married." "Should we hold hands?" "We can't." "But why?" "Because, people will know." "Know what?" "About us." "So what if they know?" "It's better when it's a secret." "Why?" "So no one can take it from us.")

  Nicole Krauss

  Husband, Stupid, Hands

  "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss, 2005.

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Husband, Wife

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Husband, Differences, Government

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  The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

  Lucretia Mott

  Husband, Wife, Theory

  "Discourse onWoman" (1849)

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• The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• ... it is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.

  Victor L. Brown

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Husband, Boredom

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• I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Depressing, Money, Sorry

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• Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

  Richard J. Needham

  Love Is, Bed, Fever

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• Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

  Howard W. Hunter

  Marriage, Husband, Intimate Relationships

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• When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Husband

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.196, Destiny Image Publishers

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• It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Husband, Believe, Wife

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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• If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  W.C. Fields (2016). “Fields for President”, p.36, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Husband, Heart

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• If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Voice, Differences

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Husband, Wife, Watches

  "My Favorite Movie: Zoe Lister-Jones" by Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. June 04, 2012.

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Husband, Heart, Wife

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.177

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• The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Children, Husband

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• A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Husband, Law, Long

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

  Wilkie Collins

  Husband, Wife, Care

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.260, e-artnow sro

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• Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Wife, Fool

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• What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

  Laura Riding

  Husband, Sadness, First Love

  "Lives of Wives". Book by Laura Riding, 1939.

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