There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
