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Quotes About Compromise

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
~ Gerald Brenan
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years - Rudy Giuliani Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming: 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up
~ Shaquille O'Neal
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.
~ Susan Straight
In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.
~ Virginia Woolf
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
~ Candice Olson
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We have found that the best way for our marriage to work is to let me make the big decisions and my wife the small ones. With this system I'm noticing there are usually no big ones.
~ Tom Kardashian
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her way. And second let her have it.
~ Lyndon Johnson
The last word in an argument is what a wife has. Anything a husband says after that is the beginning of another argument.
~ Anonymous
It's so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don't major on the minors.
~ Kimberly Schlapman
Our marriage is based on compromise-he admits he's wrong and I forgive him.
~ Carol Spieker
My wife and I have many arguments but she only wins half of them. My mother-in-law wins the other half.
~ Terry Bechtol
They were married for better or worse. He couldn't have done better and she couldn't have done worse.
~ Anonymous
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
~ Archie Bunker
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
~ Duane Dewel
The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
~ Howard Hughes
You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.
~ Heather Locklear
Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.
~ Joseph Delaney
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
~ Croft M. Pentz
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
~ Harlan Mathews