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"
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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"
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
