Compromise in Marriage Quotes

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause.

You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.