Quotes About Partners

Girlfriends have a come hither look. Wives have a hitherto look.

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

On my message boards a recurrent theme was having a partner who didn't help, who didn't get it, who even judged and blamed. Even partners who did help often couldn't feel the wave of need engulfing the ill person. And my god, the need. It felt shameful to need other people so much.

A lot of times you're around men who are so in love with their wives or partners that they don't have anything to offer any other woman in conversation. Especially single women. But Sam and Dom and Abe can be in love with you three and still make a girl feel as if she has some kind of sex appeal. That's nice.

Though no law was written, there was a crude rule of law, adherence to a covenant that transcended their selfish interests. It was biblical in its depth, and its importance grew with each step into wilderness. When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another.

Though no law was written, there was a crude rule of law, adherence to a covenant that transcended their selfish interests. It was biblical in its depth, and its importance grew with each step into wilderness. When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another. The

One thing I know about husbands: They sure do like to be needed.

How to keep love fresh? The answer is the same as it is for any other activity. To be enjoyable, a relationship must become more complex. To become more complex, the partners must discover new potentialities in themselves and in each other. To discover these, they must invest attention in each other—so that they can learn what thoughts and feelings, what dreams reside in their partner's mind. This in itself is a never-ending process, a lifetime's task. After

To be enjoyable, a relationship must become more complex. To become more complex, the partners must discover new potentialities in themselves and in each other. To discover these, they must invest attention in each other—so that they can learn what thoughts and feelings, what dreams reside in their partner's mind. This in itself is a never-ending process, a lifetime's task.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

Of course, it is almost always the case that the couple has much more in common than they may suppose. But marriage seems to specialize, at times, in radically de-emphasizing the similarities between the partners and wildly exaggerating the points of difference.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

He may bring home the bacon, but he won't be bringing home your bacon.

People do the same thing with problem partners. If you've waited a year for your partner to change, you're almost magically drawn into waiting another year. And then how can you not wait two more years after waiting the first two years?

Our bleak reality was now apparent: we couldn't leave and we couldn't change partners.

After marriage, everyone turns into great detectives.

Remember, we are all blind when it comes to love, or at the time of choosing our life partners.

He imagined the Indians as useful allies in fulfilling English aspirations, possible trading partners, and subordinate, to be sure, but above all a natural resource to be exploited for the greater good.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.