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Quotes About Partnership

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.
~ Brendon Small
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
~ Oscar Levant
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
~ Francis Bacon
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
~ Portia de Rossi
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.
~ Maryon Pearson
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
~ Mason Cooley
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark
~ Stephen King
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
~ Iris Murdoch
It takes at least one to make a marriage.
~ Jean Kerr
Marriage is the aftermath of love.
~ Noel Coward
Marriage is the tomb of friendship.
~ Hannah Webster Foster
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.
~ Walter Cronkite
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
~ John Sandford
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
~ Ruth Rendell
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
~ Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
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.
~ Debi Pearl
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle
~ Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle
Marriage is holy and it's private.
~ Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
~ Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
~ Jess C. Scott, Playmates