Marriage

Marriage is like a long trip in a tiny rowboat. If one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other passenger has to steady it-- otherwise, they'll go to the bottom together.
--Dr. David Reuban

As far as I'm concerned, marriage is one of the most wonderful, satisfying experiences a person can have. But, I've only been married 17 years, so I haven't seen that side of it yet.
--George Gobel

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of the incidents as disasters.
--Harold Nicolson

The difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
--Unknown

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
--Doug Larsen

Don't over-analyze your marriage. That's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
--Unknown

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

The secret of a happy marriage is simple--just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.
--Robert Quillen

Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to someone who makes you laugh every day--ah, that's a real treat!
--Joanne Woodward (wife of Paul Newman)

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