Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

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

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

You only get to know someone after a huge exchange of blows.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

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.

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting.

He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he corrected."Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?"

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Life with another person is always difficult.

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.

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.