#spouse

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#control-freaks #control-issues #cynic #cynical #cynical-humor

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#end #feel #good #good marriage #had

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#conjugal #desires #disappeared #even #friendship

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#get #going #me #other #parents

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#spouse #friendship

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! ↗

— Barbara Bush

#day #even #follow #footsteps #him

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. ↗

— Albert Camus

#breathe #children #clean #clean air #disenfranchised

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bedroom #big #breakfast #day #even

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#beauty #creation #eternal #god #his

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#good #husband #man #spouse