Quote by Benjamin Spock
I would say that the surest measure of a mans or a womans maturity

I would say that the surest measure of a mans or a womans maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. – Benjamin Spock

Other quotes by Benjamin Spock

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. – Benjamin Spock

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Learning
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense thats in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. – Benjamin Spock

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Anger
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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mothers age. – Benjamin Spock

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Age
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Marriage
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. – Anne Stevenson

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Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the others point of view? – William Shatner

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Marriage

Ive always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage. – Stephen Harper

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Marriage

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I dont know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Marriage

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Information is the currency of democracy. – Thomas Jefferson

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge

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