There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
