Quotes About Understanding

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

Marriage is a school of learning.

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 is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.