Quotes About Compatibility

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man

Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well

I wonder sometimes to see the trouble a man'll take before he gets a pair o' boots, to find out as they're a good fit and won't gall his foot when he comes to wear 'em; but t' same man'll go and get married as careless and off-hand like, as if there weren't the smallest chance of his wife's not suiting him.

I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be. I was the happiest man in the world.

I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster.

Never date a man who has the same haircut you do. It's just a bad idea.

The very things that first draw you to a person will eventually be the very things that drive you away.

We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours

Klju? za sre?u nije u onim stvarima za koje si prije mislio da su bitne, nego u pronalasku osobe koja ti "pristaje".

Classical philosophy holds that perpetual agreement with another person is incompatible with friendship. Because no two people can possibly agree on everything, someone who never expresses disagreement with you is acting insincerely - and true friendship requires sincerity above almost everything else.

If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.

I'm not looking for the perfect person. I'm looking for the perfect match.

For example, in intravenous (IV) solutions and kits for use in hospitals, procedures for attaching solutions to patients differ among competitive products and the hardware for hanging the IV bottles are not compatible. Here switching encounters great resistance from nurses responsible for administering the treatment and requires new investments in hardware.

You're right, nobody's perfect. But in the right relationship, you're going to be perfect for each other. Because you tick each other's boxes in the things that matter to you. So you can overlook his snoring, or he can ignore your aversion to exercise, or whatever it is that doesn't exactly align, as long as you each fulfil the big things, the important ones.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?