There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
