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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises. -- Francis Bacon
Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. -- Gillian Flynn
My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group. -- Amy Klobuchar
Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes. -- Henry Cloud
Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too. -- Ken Blanchard
Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day. -- Brian Tracy
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses. -- Ian Dunbar
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists. -- Patricia Schroeder
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses. -- Yvonne De Carlo
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. -- Isabel Allende
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. -- Mortimer Adler
Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally. -- Monica Crowley
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. -- Maria Bartiromo
Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s. -- Mariella Frostrup
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege. -- Khaled Hosseini
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write. -- Claire Tomalin
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. -- Pope John Paul II
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
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses. -- Julia Glass
I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses. -- Tisha Campbell-Martin
My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea. -- Brandi Carlile
The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would recommend limiting immigration to spouses and minor children of citizens, plus additional immigrants chosen for special skills needed in the U.S. -- Jan C. Ting
Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams. -- Louie Gohmert
The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around. -- Lloyd Blankfein
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. -- Gordon Neufeld
I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time. -- Alice Smith
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do. -- Paul Bloom
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! -- Dolly Parton
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. -- Julia Glass
Dally not with other folk's spouses or money. -- Benjamin Franklin
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses -- Ian Dunbar
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses the louses. -- Yvonne De Carlo
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots -- Douglas Adams
Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. -- Justin Davis
We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer. -- Mike Bickle
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage. -- Timothy Keller
Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses. -- Fred Rogers
Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. -- Sarah Mahoney
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children. -- Billy Graham
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. Its important for a woman to be able to control her finances. -- Maria Bartiromo
Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their biological children. -- Kristine G. Baker
Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses. -- Emily Yoffe
Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends. -- Richard Carlson
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. -- Michele Weiner-Davis
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses. -- A. J. Jacobs
I don't like those men who claim that their wife is their best friend. . . . I think spouses should tolerate each other and occasionally have sex. -- Adam Carolla
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers. -- Julian Assange
Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego. -- Shannon L. Alder
One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats. -- Hazel Hawke
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women? -- Joan Kirner
It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses. -- Heidi Julavits
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing. -- Michelle Obama
Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce can leave on the shoulders of their children. -- Diane Greene
I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends. -- Raquel Cepeda
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families. -- Michael Enzi
I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby. -- David Ogilvy
If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do. -- Paul Bloom
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life. -- Deepak Chopra
Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." -- John Eliot
The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love. -- Sandra Tsing Loh

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