Quote by Martin Buxbaum

“In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

— Harriet Lerner

I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.

— James E. Faust

Marriage is like the ocean and couples are the waves. We just have to go with the flows with an open mind and humility.

— Kemmy Nola

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

— Martin Luther

Nothing is more inspiring in today’s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other’s…

— Marlin K. Jensen

Do not get the love of one another so it does not! Both love to get one to cry, to have another losing

— Mak_786

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

— Edward Abbey

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it…

— Michel de Montaigne

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is…

— Mark Driscoll

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning

— Denis Leary

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

— Carl Jung