Quotes About Understanding

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Marriage is not a reform school.

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

The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

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

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.