Quotes About Responsibility

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.