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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
~Ann Landers, 1968

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
~Danny DeVito, The War of the Roses

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
~Georg C. Lichtenberg

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
~Harriet Martineau

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
~Joyce Brothers

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even
marry you because I loved you. I married you because you
gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults.
And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect
people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage.
And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that
protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that
promise.
~Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always
with the same person.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
~Nanette Newman