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Quotes About Partnership

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
~ Oscar Wilde
If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, however, that that would alter you much.
~ Oscar Wilde
As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.
~ Oscar Wilde
to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel
~ Oscar Wilde
You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.
~ Oscar Wilde
the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
~ Oscar Wilde
Un matrimonio dovrebbe basarsi sulla reciproca incomprensione.
~ Oscar Wilde
La bigamia è avere una moglie di troppo. La monogamia lo stesso.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
~ Ovid
Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love
~ P.C. Cast
It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The whole wheeze in married life, he had come to learn, was to give the opposite number as few opportunities of saying 'Oh, how could you?' as possible.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Get married, P.K. Purvis, said Gussie earnestly. It's the only life ...
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike....
~ P.G. Wodehouse
This,' said Psmith, 'is becoming more and more gratifying every moment. It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery. I cannot see how you can very well resist the conclusion that we are twin-souls.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We shall get into that series of 'Husbands and Wives Who Work Together.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.
~ Pat Frank
Communication is the very means of cooperation.
~ Pat MacMillan
Mickey was not merely the right idea at the right time; he was the creative solution to a crisis in Walt's life.
~ Pat Williams
You may work for or own a company. Company is derived from an old French word meaning companion; and companion is literally com, with, and panis, bread. Your companion is one with whom you have bread. A company is really an association of people who are trying to make their bread together.
~ Dale Carnegie
Welcome the disagreement. Remember the slogan, "When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
~ Dale Carnegie
Acepte el desacuerdo. Recuerde el eslogan: "Cuando dos socios siempre están de acuerdo, uno de ellos no es necesario". Si hay algo que se le ha pasado por alto, agradezca a quien se lo recuerde. Quizá este desacuerdo es su oportunidad de corregirse antes de cometer un grave error.
~ Dale Carnegie