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Quotes About Spouse

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.
~ Larry Burkett
65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.
~ Jay Leno
There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
~ John Fowles
There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.
~ Rush Limbaugh
50% of all married people are women
~ Yogi Berra
his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
~ Trisha Yearwood
But a married spouse at whatever income level is almost always going to improve the economy of a household over a lifetime, whether that spouse is adding the proceeds of a minimum-wage job or the inestimable value of being a stay-at-home parent while the other one works.
~ Heather Mac Donald
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
~ Thomas Fuller
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
~ Thomas Fuller
The one person who must never know about this … is my wife.
~ Tim Green
My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.
~ Rachel Morrison
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
~ George Savile
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
~ Oscar Wilde
It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He went straight to the sink where his wife was washing up. What, are thee there! he said boisterously. Sluther off an' let me wesh my-sen. You may wait till I've finished, said his wife. Oh mun I? - An' what if I shonna? This good-humoured threat amused Mrs Morel. Then you can go and wash yourself in the soft water tub.... With which he stood watching her a moment, then went away to wait for her.
~ D.H. Lawrence
he was practical about what he wanted in a wife. Deborah was rather plain, but she offered the prospect of comfort and domesticity.
~ Walter Isaacson
How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse.
~ Charles T. Munger
I'm a hedonist, and you, Jane, my wife, should know that about me. You've shared my body and bed, you know things about me that no other soul on earth does. Who can I not be a sensualist with than, you, Jane? Who else to act out my wicked fantasies, than the woman who inspires them? There is no shame in fantasies, in pleasure. Who other than us needs to know what we've done, what brings the other pleasure?
~ Charlotte Featherstone
Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
~ Author Unknown
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way ' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
~ Harry Connick Jr.