Best marriage & partners Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Iris and the friends: a year of memories

“I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.”

Turns Marriage Garden Partners Gardener Good Marriage

Author:Meryl Streep

“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.”

Needs Giving Feels Humans Wells Accepting Marriage Expression Equal Ideals Instinct Intellect Partners Setting Settings Human Relations Human Relationships Happy Marriage

Book:The Integrity of the Personality

Source: The Integrity of the Personality

“a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.”

Together Marriage Support Balance Partners Revolutionary Delicate

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.”

Enough Strong Marriage Risk Divorce Partners Strong Enough

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.”

Wells Kind Persons Soul Moments Form Quality Marriage Lovers Essentials Commitment And Love Affair Partners All Kinds All Time Not Sure Love Affair Love And Marriage

Author:Merle Shain

“Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.”

Love Two Asks Heaven Marriage Victory Battle Blessing Partners Enterprise Fierce Audacious

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.”

Hands Marriage Defeat Partners Fidelity

Book:I'm Not Stiller

Source: I'm Not Stiller

“The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.”

Real Lying Understanding Growth Marriage Essence Partners Acceptable

Author:Wallis Simpson

“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”

Men Self Country Marriage Principles Wife Duty Dance Neighbor Partners Fidelity Emblems

Author:Jane Austen

“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.”

Way Giving Persons Marriage Demand Patterns Partners Selfish Flexible Unselfish Unselfishness Giving Way

Book:A Severed Head

Source: A Severed Head

“Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?”

Way Mean Doe Sex Marriage Couple Gay Argument Harm Partners Allowing Diminish Gay Marriage Persuasive Marry Me Heterosexual Marriage

Author:Ted Olson

“A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.”

Needs Feels Wells Marriage Couple Married Partners Quarrels Funny Marriage Anniversary Married Couples Wedding Anniversary

Author:Jean Rostand

“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.”

Memories Marriage Equal Partners Wedding Fear Not

Book:Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

Source: Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”

Persons Different Speak Marriage Unique Female Absolutes Males Partners Chosen Echoes Faithfulness Covenant Covenant With God

Author:Rowan Williams

“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”

Long Ends Matter Together Choices Marriage Love You Balance Partners Intimate Ritual Intricate Happy Marriage Nothing Matters Inspirational Marriage Long Marriage

Author:Amy Bloom

“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”

Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”

“I have never said that love is destroyed by marriage. How can marriage destroy love? Yes, it is destroyed in marriage, but it is destroyed by you, not by marriage. It is destroyed by the partners. How can marriage destroy love? It is you who destroy it, because you don't know what love is. You simply pretend to know, you simply hope that you know, you dream that you know, but you don't know what love is. Love has to be learned; it is the greatest art there is.”

Knows Art Said Dream Love Is Marriage Partners Destroyed

Author:Rajneesh

“One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.”

Love Helping Sides Realizing Marriage One Day Romantic Partners Wedding Your Side Positive Marriage Searching For Happiness

Author:Robert Breault

“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.”

World Littles Real Soul Might Care Found Memories Perfect Mistake Marriage Married Partners Mates Imperfect Suitable Soul Mate A Perfect World Perfect Marriage

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.”

Thinking Needs Giving Important Marriage Written Married Surprise Partners Plenty Contracts Spells Formal Give And Take

Author:Muriel Fox

“Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.”

Self Sometimes Used Marriage Partners Used To Be Complexity Woven Irritating Endearing Idiosyncrasies

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.”

People Thinking Persons Real Marriage Adventure Findings Illusion Exciting Partners Real Ones Exciting Adventures

Book:Explorations in marital and family therapy: selected papers of James L. Framo

Source: Explorations in marital and family therapy: selected papers of James L. Framo

“To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.”

Should Business Family Marriage Wife Strength Weakness Entrepreneur Vices Partners Partnership Spouse Vice Versa Husband And Wife Life Partner Business Partners

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

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