Quotes About Partnership

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

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 is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

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.

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

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

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.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.