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151. “To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.”

Robert Kiyosaki

Partnership, Business, Marriage, Teamwork, Success

152. “I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.”

Charles Dickens

Money, Marriage, Determination, Social Status, Love

153. “I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.”

Charles Dickens

Marriage, Decay, Loss, Beauty, Sorrow

154. “There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

Charles Dickens

Marriage, Mind, Purpose, Compatibility, Relationship

155. “I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

Marilyn Monroe

Marriage, Love, Fear, Relationships, Vulnerability

156. “Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.”

Marilyn Monroe

Love, Relationships, Marriage, Heartache, Loss

157. “I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.”

Marilyn Monroe

Love, Marriage, Respect, Relationships, Value

158. “If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.”

Marilyn Monroe

Relationships, Marriage, Intimacy, Love, Expectations

159. “Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

Marilyn Monroe

Relationships, Love, Marriage, Infidelity, Sarcasm

160. “The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.”

Marilyn Monroe

Society, Relationships, Marriage, Social Norms, Acceptance

161. “Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.”

Marilyn Monroe

Marriage, Reality, Relationships, Humor, Perception

162. “Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

Marilyn Monroe

Marriage, Love, Relationships, Humor, Reality

163. “Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

Marilyn Monroe

Marriage, Love, Friendship, Relationships, Wisdom

164. “My marriage didn’t make me sad, but it didn’t make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn’t because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.”

Marilyn Monroe

Marriage, Loneliness, Communication, Relationship, Boredom

165. “Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.”

Malcolm X

Integration, Race, Society, Marriage, Change

166. “I have a wife who understands, or even if she doesn’t she at least pretends.”

Malcolm X

Marriage, Understanding, Relationships, Humor, Compromise

167. “More wives could keep their husbands if they realized their greatest urge is to be men.”

Malcolm X

Relationships, Marriage, Understanding, Gender, Growth

168. “There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage, Relationships, Humor, Love, Balance

169. “You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?”

Benjamin Franklin

Relationships, Acceptance, Marriage, Understanding, Imperfection

170. “He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Completeness, Relationships, Identity, Tradition

171. “Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Stability, Preparation, Responsibility, Relationships

172. “Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Happiness, Relationships, Commitment, Love

173. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Awareness, Relationships, Caution, Perspective

174. “One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Value, Rarity, Relationships, Worth

175. “Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Love, Relationships, Commitment, Consequence

176. “A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Partnership, Unity, Relationships, Completeness

177. “When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Relationships, Philosophy, Communication, Commitment

178. “At the beginning of a marriage, ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Conversation, Relationships, Communication, Long-Term

179. “Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people – but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Love, Friendship, Society, Relationships

180. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Friendship, Marriage, Happiness, Relationships

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