The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
