There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
-Shannon L. Alder
"300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before marriage"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
