The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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"
