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Quotes About Relationships

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done
~ Burt Reynolds
A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant
~ Seymour Hicks
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
~ Amy Levy
Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
~ St Jerome
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
~ Samuel Johnson
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
~ Princess Diana
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
~ Billy Connolly
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.
~ Sydney Smith
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
~ Harpo Marx
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Most women have a good deal of pity for some other woman's husband
~ Arabian Proverb
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.
~ Arabian Proverb
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out
~ French proverb
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
~ Unknown
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~ Peter De Vries
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages
~ Unknown
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
~ Oscar Wilde
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day
~ George Bernard Shaw
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
~ Hasidic Proverb