Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.