There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
