Spouse Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old spouse quotes, spouse sayings, and spouse proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. unknown
A spouse is not a destination but a fellow traveler. Sadghuru
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises. Francis Bacon
A good husband makes a good wife. John Florio
Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes. Henry Cloud
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. John Florio
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. B. R. Ambedkar
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. Alfred Hitchcock
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
A spouse is someone you can live with; a soulmate is someone you can't live without. Matshona Dhliwayo
Your spouse is not a possession you attain, but a friend in which you trust & adore. Robert Vanleeuwen
Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future. John Corey Whaley
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth. Ben Franklin
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. Voltaire
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your spouse's interest in your collection gives you permission to collect. Nancy Hopkins Reily
When you bring in a new object into your house, your spouse may say, 'You didn't pay money for that?' When you sell it, your spouse will say, 'You're not going to sell that, are you?' Nancy Hopkins Reily
Tho' fortune change, his constant spouse remains, / Augments his joys, or mitigates his pains Alexander Pope
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, / Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, / Sinews of concord, earthy immortality, / Eternity of pleasures. John Ford
You must marry, or your life will be wasted. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you...When I think what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love— Marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made. E.M. Forster
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. Ogden Nash
Marriages are made in heaven, but they are lived on earth. Nathan H. Gist
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. George Bernard Shaw
We;— / They;— / Small words but mighty / In their span / Are bound the life and hopes of man / For them, life's best is centered around their love; / Till younger lives come all their love to prove. John Oxenham
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. Leo Tolstoy
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. Menander
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk go and sit with. Let's be a comfortable couple. Now, do, my dear! Charles Dickens
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther
A person without a spouse is like a vase without flowers. Cape Verde Islands
For you are the one, / And I will keep my vow, / I'll love you until the end, / And I'll look around the bend, / To see our future in hand, / To see the one in a gown, / And the rest is to come, / Fore it is not the end. Joshua Stone