The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
