Top 441 Spouse Quotes & Sayings

Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.

The fastest way to have a loving, supportive, understanding spouse is to become a loving, supportive, understanding spouse.

I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Once you identify and learn to speak your spouse’s primary love language, I believe that you will have discovered the key to a long-lasting, loving marriage. Love need not evaporate after the wedding, but in order to keep it alive most of us will have to put forth effort to learn a secondary love language. We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

You really don't have to worry about your spouse, as long as you trust him or her. If you trust your spouse or whoever you're in a relationship with, everybody else doesn't matter.

Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

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

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

We all desperately need love. If a spouse in a difficult marriage will learn the love language of that spouse, and they will, with the help of God, consistently speak their love language no matter how they are treated.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

To me, watching your spouse, somebody that you love, have an adventure - what is better than that?

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.

The plural of spouse is spice.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

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

Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

One of the things I say is, 'You cannot control your spouse, but you can influence your spouse.' And one of the ways to influence your spouse is to make sure you are meeting their need for love.

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

As a reporter, I spent a great deal of time in court. During brief breaks in testimony, I would often look at the spouse, usually the wife, of the accused. I began to wonder how listening to the details of a crime purportedly committed by your spouse would affect that person's view of her husband.

Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.

Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

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

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse? Nurture that relationship first and foremost. It is your role, together, to be the best parents you can be and what better way to do that than by parenting together and teaching your children (by what you say and do) that the bond of marriage is stronger than any other earthly commitment

To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

When I was in high school, I used to pray about whoever my future spouse was going to be.

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

When you're married, the person you would most like to love you is your spouse. And if you feel loved by your spouse, the world looks bright. But if the love tank is empty, and you don't feel loved by your spouse, the world begins to look dark.

I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don't have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things.

In a relationship where finances are shared, it's important that both people know what's going on. If one spouse likes being the family accountant, it's fine for that person to take the lead, but the other spouse shouldn't be in the dark.

You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

How you think about your spouse greatly impacts how you treat your spouse.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.

Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.

Yet, know this if you understand nothing else: You have a right to your joy; children or no children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it! Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no matter how much money you make or don't make. And if they aren't joyful, and they get up and leave you, then release them with love to seek their joy.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.