There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
