Quotes About Compatibility

Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out.

a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey.

You can't be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with

The two partners in a relationship also need to have some similar interests in addition to a similar life view.

There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.

If you and another person had exactly the same values, one of you would not be necessary!

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

For a relationship to work, you really have to know the person you're involved with. Otherwise it's never going to last.

Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.

I'm only judging by his letters, but are you sure you want to marry a fellow who uses six words where one would do?

accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.

If you can't marry the man you love, then the next best thing is to marry one who is easily managed. . . . But the best thing of all, of course, is to marry a man beloved as well as manageable, as she herself intended to do.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

Imogen," he said with forced patience, "you have plenty of occupations of your own, and you don't care to do the things that give a great deal of pleasure to me – when I have time to do them. You don't want to fish or shoot and you can't drive my car, which would be a help to me sometimes. Am I to understand that you object to my having the companionship of another woman who can do these things?

could one do a compatibility test based on favourite books? Could an Anais Nin fan love a Dean Koontz fan? An Alice Munro woman love a James Joyce man?

It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without.

I don't think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

What is it that William knew about me and that I knew about him that caused us to get married?

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

It's rare that I go on a first date and don't want to go out again.