Quotes About Compromise

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

Love means never having to say you're sorry. Marriage means apologizing when you know you're right.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.