Spousal Relationships Quotes

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

When you marry someone, you marry their entire family.

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

I have no trouble understanding Democrats. I sleep with one every night.

I am not an ux. I am a person and a woman. I am not appended to my husband. We are just married.

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.

I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.

I have never slept in a bed with anybody. Even when I was married we slept in separate beds.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Do you think your mother and I should have liv’d comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.