The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
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 marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
