The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
