The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
