Quotes About Communication

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

A real man doesn't need to drag a woman through the mud for the sake of appeasing his wife.

My wife said, 'Take me in your arms and whisper something soft and sweet.' I said, 'chocolate fudge.'

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life. You have to be able to be husband and wife at the same time as business partners.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it.

Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.

There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.