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Famous Husband And Wife Quotes

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband. — William Blackstone

They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies. — Guru Amar Das

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. — Hemant Joshi

When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs

A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah. — Bilal Philips

The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood. — Indian Proverbs

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault

The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes. — Bulgarian Proverbs

A good husband makes a good wife. — John Florio

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband! — Lucretia Mott

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. — Homer

God designed husbands and wives to complete each other, not to compete with each other. — Jimmy Evans

Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. — Proverbs

Wives and husbands are a dime a dozen but a true partner is worth their weight in gold. — Alex Hormozi

Short Husband And Wife Quotes

  • a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
  • The husband eats hamburger; the wife eats spring roll. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance. — Myles Munroe
  • Don’t put a finger between a husband and wife. — Italian Proverbs
  • If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. — Anne Dudley Bradstreet
  • If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. — Anne Bradstreet
  • A man’s best friend is a good wife. — Thomas A. Edison
  • Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray
  • A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne

Top 10 Husband And Wife Quotes

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. — Marie Antoinette

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. — Martin Luther

God created sex. Priests created marriage. - Voltaire

God created sex. Priests created marriage. — Voltaire

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. — Zig Ziglar

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. — Chanakya

It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife. — Hungarian Proverbs

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. - James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. — James Thurber

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman

Husband And Wife Image Quotes

Husband and wife quote We're all consumers. The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife.
We're all consumers. The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife.

Understanding Husband And Wife Quotes

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children. — Boyd K. Packer

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes. — Dorothy Dix

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is. — Max Lucado

Husband and wife quote There are three faithful friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
There are three faithful friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound? — Frances Wright

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. — Michel de Montaigne

Relationship Of Husband And Wife Quotes

The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent. — Nouman Ali Khan

It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy. — Parley P. Pratt

What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things – the Bond…Every conflict that occurs – whether between husband and wife, social or racial groups – is resolved only when we can fully see and embrace the space – the Bond – between us. — Lynne McTaggart

Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits. — Frederick Lenz

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire. — Mata Amritanandamayi

... it is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life. — Victor L. Brown

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together. — Simone de Beauvoir

The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are. — Swami Muktananda

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted." — Tyler Perry

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister. — Emily Giffin

Inspirational Husband And Wife Quotes

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. — Boonaa Mohammed

Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death. — Wayne Mack

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along. — Trevor Hall

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin

My husband and my children inspire me on a daily basis to be the best wife, mom, and woman I can be. — Candace Cameron

Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. — Will Rogers

Nothing is more inspiring in today’s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other’s friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality. — Marlin K. Jensen

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees". — Pope John Paul II

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together. — Saint John Chrysostom

Husbands And Wives Quotes

How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men. — Dave Willis

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. — Washington Irving

So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable. — Ogden Nash

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. — Emma Thompson

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. — Paul the Apostle

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. — Pope Leo XIII

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? — Allen Ginsberg

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group. — Christopher Titus

My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.' — Michele Bachmann

Husband Love Quotes

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. — Oscar Wilde

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. — Yoko Ono

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A husband loves the charm of the ladles tip until dying. — Thai Proverbs

It's not your job to like me - it's mine - Byron Katie

It's not your job to like me - it's mine — Byron Katie

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. - Stormie Omartian

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. — Stormie Omartian

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. — Mother Teresa

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

Married Couple Quotes

Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less. — Nouman Ali Khan

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. — Unknown Author

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. — Earl Wilson

I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama

I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks. — Gavin MacLeod

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. — Ian Mckellen

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. — Ruth Graham

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — Billie Holiday

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide. — Paul Sadler

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. — Dave Willis

Loving Husband Quotes

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! — Euripides

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men. — Janet Street-Porter

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. — Carnie Wilson

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. — Pope John Paul II

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. — Jada Pinkett Smith

If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband. — Louise Thaden

My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country. — Betty Ford

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. — Shmuley Boteach

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me. — Judith Jamison

Love My Husband Quotes

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations. — Beyonce Knowles

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. — John Lennon

I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! — Catherine Bell

Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it. — Anna Nicole Smith

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love. — Oscar Wilde

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. — Michelle Obama

I believe life is about balance. My mom was brilliant, yet manipulative. Beautiful, but had more voices in her head than the Wu-Tang Clan. Loves her kids, killed her last husband. I say last husband because you don't get another one after that. — Christopher Titus

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children. — Ayelet Waldman

I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments. — Pat Nixon

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister. — Gail Sheehy

Good Husband Quotes

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. — Marco Rubio

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision. — Donald Trump

A husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies. — African Proverbs

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. — H. L. Mencken

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. — Maureen Forrester

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. — Milton Berle

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. — Matthew Modine

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. — Jay E. Adams

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill. — Gail Carriger

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More Husband And Wife Quotes

The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace." — Pope Francis

A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair? — Henny Youngman

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? — Betty Friedan

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth. — Melissa Bean

Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul. — Dennis Rainey

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. — Larry Christiansen

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. — Jack Kingston

God intends and expects marriage to be a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman, based on the principles of biblical love. The relationship between Jesus Christ and His church is the supreme example of the committed love that a husband and wife are to follow in their relationship with each other. — John C. Broger

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. — David O. Mckay

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. — Helen Rowland

A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold. — James E. Faust

According to the Bible, the marriage act is more than a physical act. It is an act of sharing. It is an act of communion. It is an act of total self-giving wherein the husband gives himself completely to the wife, and the wife gives herself to the husband in such a way that the two actually become one flesh. — Wayne Mack

Sometimes the person that excites you most isn't necessarily going to make the best husband or wife. It takes a lot to see past the glamor and glitter when you're looking to get married and look for someone who's going to be a loving companion that will stand by your side no matter what and better you while also seeking to be bettered by you. — Omar Suleiman

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion — Henry B. Eyring

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