Spouse Quotes - Page 10

• Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

  Mortimer Adler

  Lost Friendship, Desire, Conjugal

  "Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough".

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• As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

  Dave Barry

  Marriage, Party, Talking

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I was shocked [of Sarah Palin ], because beating up, you know, your girlfriend, your spouse, or acts of violence aren`t one of the core symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Jon Soltz

  Girlfriend, Stress, Violence

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Emotional, Mirrors, Choices

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• Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

  Richard Carlson

  Children, People, Parent

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

  Byron Katie

  Family, Children, Parent

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

  Douglas Adams

  Dreamer, Philosopher, Idiot

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

  Isabel Allende

  Motivation, Nice, Inspiration

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• Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Children, Frustration

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• Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Intelligent, Healthy

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Believe, Disease, Admonition

  Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.

  Scott Adams

  Moving, Divorce, Writing

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• 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

  Comfort, Ministry, Unspoken

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.11, Franciscan Media

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• With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.

  Dave Abrams

  Home, People, Investing

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• Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

  Timothy Keller

  Doe, Confrontation

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.91, Penguin

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• 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

  Mother, Mind, Church

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Wife, Proud, Way

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• The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

  Steve Pavlina

  Past, Thought Provoking, Boss

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• One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

  Charles L. Allen

  Husband, Dark, Love Is

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• What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

  Carl Bernstein

  Lying, Self, Ideas

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• The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Husband, Recovery, Fighting

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• 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

  Mean, Littles, Life Is

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• Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay at nights with it? take care of it when it cries? heal its rashes and sores? and on top of that care for my spouse, provide labor at my trade, take care of this and take care of that? do this and do that? and endure this and endure that? Why should I make such a prisoner of myself?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Baby, Night, Smell

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• Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, School, Punishment

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