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Quotes About Partnership

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
~ Billie Jean King
A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.
~ Lisa Gerrard
Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
~ Allison Pearson
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
~ Brad Garrett
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
~ Calvin Trillin
There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.
~ Clifford Odets
Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.
~ Jayne Mansfield
Marriage is a school of learning.
~ Myles Munroe
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
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.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
~ Washington Irving
Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
~ Fannie Flagg
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
~ Denis Healey
My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.
~ Curtis Sliwa
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
~ Patrick McGoohan
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
~ Joseph Campbell
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
~ Rachel Griffiths
Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.
~ Lori Gottlieb
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
~ Eden Phillpotts
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
~ Bertrand Russell