Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Every relationship has its complications.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Calm can solve all issues.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.